On the 30th September 2022, the Top Ten+ ME/CFS research priorities were published in the peer-reviewed journal “Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behaviour”.
After laying out the Top Ten+ ME/CFS research priorities the paper concludes:
“People with ME/CFS, their families and carers, and health care professionals worked together to identify, for the first time, the research priorities for ME/CFS. These focus on the biomedical causes of ME/CFS and how to diagnose, treat and manage it. Researchers and funding bodies should consider these in their plans for future research.”
This marks another important step in the work of this Priority Setting Partnership. By having a peer-reviewed article we hope that researchers will begin to reference the Top Ten+ priorities in their funding applications, and that funding bodies will give significant consideration to the extent to which new research addresses one of the priorities.