The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study

@inproceedings{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 Dobbins and Anthony L. Komaroff},
  booktitle={Annals of Internal Medicine},
  year={1994}
}

• Keiji Fukuda, Stephen E. Straus, +3 authors Anthony L. Komaroff
• Published 1994 in Annals of Internal Medicine
• DOI:10.7326/0003-4819-121-12-199412150-00009

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… CONTINUE READING

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