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ArticleFuture healthcare journal2025

A patient perspective on enduring symptoms - the unmet need.

Katharine Cheston

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Article in Future healthcare journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Make diagnostic doubt visible in healthcare.Future healthcare journal · 2026
    Article
  2. An Overview of Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026
    Review
  3. Enduring symptoms: A call to immediate action.Future healthcare journal · 2025
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Katharine ChestonMildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology & Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Durham, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This short paper illustrates the lived experience of individuals with severe enduring symptoms: chronic, often debilitating conditions for which no clear medical explanation currently exists. Drawing on qualitative interviews, the paper highlights the profound suffering, isolation, and lack of medical support experienced by this underserved population. It examines the systemic barriers to care, including stigma, the absence of follow-up services, and the traumatising nature of some healthcare encounters, which can lead to healthcare avoidance even in the face of potentially life-threatening symptoms. It concludes with a call for improved training for clinicians, increased capacity within NHS services, and ring-fenced funding for biomedical research.

Identifiers

PMID41635442
PMCPMC12863039

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