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    Meetings

    CDC’s ME/CFS Program sponsors several types of stakeholder and outreach meetings.
    Find more information about these meetings:

    • CDC ME/CFS Stakeholder Engagement and Communication (SEC) Calls
    • Interagency ME/CFS Working Group Meetings
    • ME/CFS Roundtable Meetings

    School-Based Active Surveillance (SBAS)

    CDC has been partnering with the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) to conduct the School-Based Active Surveillance (SBAS) project. The SBAS project is for school nurses to track chronic absenteeism due to chronic conditions among students and use ME/CFS as an example.

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    Diagnosis and Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    A Systematic Evidence Review of the Evidence

    CDC contracted with the Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) to conduct a systematic review of the scientific literature surrounding myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).

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    Multi-Site Clinical Assessment of ME/CFS (MCAM)

    CDC conducted a multi-site clinical assessment of ME/CFS (MCAM) study in collaboration with clinicians with expertise in ME/CFS.

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    CFS Wichita Clinical Study Data Access

    The final Wichita Clinical Study data can be accessed through CDC’s NCHS Research Data Center (RDC). The data was collected during a 2-day in-hospital study conducted from December 2002 to July 2003 in Wichita, KS, USA.

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    Page last reviewed: July 15, 2022
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