Table 5 Illness classification at the time of the clinical study by surveillance criteria and by standardized clinically empirical criteria of 164 study participants with no medical or psychiatric exclusions.
From: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A clinically empirical approach to its definition and study
Current Classification Surveillance Criteria | CFS | ISF | Not Ill | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
CFS | 10 (62.5) | 6 (37.5) | 0 | 16 |
ISF | 32 (42.1) | 38 (50.0) | 6 (7.9) | 76 |
Remission | 1 (4.2) | 13 (54.1) | 10 (41.7) | 24 |
Control | 0 | 4 (8.3) | 44 (91.7) | 48 |
43 | 61 | 60 | 164 |