Ann Intern Med 1994 Dec 15;121(12):953-9

The chronic fatigue syndrome: a comprehensive approach to its definition and study. International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study Group.

Fukuda K, Straus SE, Hickie I, Sharpe MC, Dobbins JG, Komaroff A. and the International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study Group (for a listing of members of the Study group, see appendix)

Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333.

The complexities of the chronic fatigue syndrome and the methodologic problems associated with its study indicate the need for a comprehensive, systematic, and integrated approach to the evaluation, classification, and study of persons with this condition and other fatiguing illnesses. We propose a conceptual framework and a set of guidelines that provide such an approach. Our guidelines include recommendations for the clinical evaluation of fatigued persons, a revised case definition of the chronic fatigue syndrome, and a strategy for subgrouping fatigued persons in formal investigations.

PMID: 7978722 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Appendix:
The following are the other members of the International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study Group:
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland:
Ann Schluederberg, ScD; University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado: James F. Jones, MD; Prince Henry Hospital and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia: Andrew R. Lloyd, MD, FRACP; King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom: Simon Wessely, MRCP, MRC Psych; Polyclinic Medical Center and Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Nelson M. Gantz, MD; Texas A & M University Health Science Center and Scott & White Memorial Hospital, Temple, Texas: Gary P. Holmes, MD; University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington: Dedra Buchwald, MD; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada: Susan Abbey, MD, FRCP(C); University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, and Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, California: Jonathan Rest, MD; University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California: Jay A. Levy, MD; Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland: Heidi Jolson, MD, MPH; Lake Tahoe Medical Center, Incline Village, Nevada: Daniel L. Peterson, MD; University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands: Jan H.M.M. Vercoulen, PhD; Centro Regionale di Riferminento Oncologico, Aviano, Italy: Umberto Tirelli, MD; Karolinska Institute at Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden: Birgitta Even- gard, MD; New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey: Benjamin H. Natelson, MD; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia: Lea Steele, Michele Reyes, and William C. Reeves, MD.