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.

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

Columns show number of subjects and (percent of row)

Reeves et al. BMC Medicine 2005 3:19   doi:10.1186/1741-7015-3-19