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Table 1 Conformity of Epidemiological Study and Disease Register Participants to Case Definitions

From: A Disease Register for ME/CFS: Report of a Pilot Study

Case Definition

Epidemiological Study

Disease Register

 

All subjects

Subjects not in disease register

  
 

No. cases

% total (95%

confidence interval)

No. cases

% total (95%

confidence interval)

No. cases

% total (95%

confidence interval)

Fukuda

282

96.9 (94.8 - 99.0)

127

96.9 (93.9 - 100.0)

155

96.9 (94.1 - 99.7

Canadian

154

52.9 (44.9 - 61.0)

57

43.5 (30.4 - 56.6)

97

60.6 (50.7 - 70.5)

TOTAL

291

100.0

131

100.0

160

100.0