Pilot Study of Alternative Treatments of Unexplained Chronic Fatigue
An objective is to identify certain types of clinicians (or individual physicians) who
appear to have identified effective treatments for patients with UCF, or to find that
clinicians who report themselves to be effective are not. Study subjects will be UCF
patients new to the practice of one of four groups of participating clinicians: 1) a control
group of MDs in practice-based research networks, 2) MDs trained in CAM, 3) naturopathic
doctors (non MDs trained in special naturopathic schools), and 4) MDs who specialize in
chronic fatigue. Our rationale for this comparison is that its successful completion will
potentially guide future searches for effective medical strategies for the treatment of UCF
that may have been developed outside the mainstream medical community. It may also provide
necessary information for follow-up studies that will help to identify specific effective
treatments. This information includes which clinicians provide the best treatments (as
evidenced by having patients with the best results), what are the characteristics of
patients who respond to a particular treatment, how the data collection procedures might
need to be refined and what sample sizes are necessary.
Observational
Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective
Differences among four groups of clinicians with respect to patient treatment outcome
Six months
No
Arthur J Hartz, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
United States: Institutional Review Board
25988
NCT00983502
August 2008
October 2010
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University of Utah | Salt Lake City, Utah |