The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study
@article{Fukuda1994TheCF, title={The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study}, author={Keiji Fukuda and Stephen E. Straus and Ian B. Hickie and Michael Sharpe and James Goodman Dobbins and Anthony L. Komaroff}, journal={Annals of Internal Medicine}, year={1994}, volume={121}, pages={953-959} }
We have developed a conceptual framework and a set of research guidelines for use in studies of the chronic fatigue syndrome. The guidelines cover the clinical and laboratory evaluation of persons with unexplained fatigue; the identification of underlying conditions that may explain the presence of chronic fatigue; revised criteria for defining cases of the chronic fatigue syndrome; and a strategy for dividing the chronic fatigue syndrome and other unexplained cases of chronic fatigue into…
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