Im Rahmen der Dekaden wurden viele Kriteriensets für ME/CFS erstellt. Hier listen wir die meisten auf (in zeitlicher Abfolge, die Wichtigsten fettgedruckt):
 

• Deskriptive Definition «einer ungewöhnlichen Erkrankung» nach Wallis (1955) [1]

• Die klinische Zusammenfassung über epidemische Neuromyasthenie nach Henderson und Shelokov (1959) [2]

• Klinische Bilder von postviralem Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS) und ME nach Ramsay (1986) [3]

• Klinische Merkmale von postviralem Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS) nach Behan und Behan (1988) [4] [5]

• CDC Holmes Definition (1988) [6]

• Oxford Criteria (1991) [7]

• CDC Fukuda Definition (1994) [8]

• CFS Clinical Practice Guidelines by Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2002) [9]

• Reeves’ (empirical) Criteria for CFS (2005) [10]

• Canadian Consensus Criteria for ME/CFS (2003, Revision 2009) [11]

• London Criteria for ME (1994, Revision 2014) [12] [13]

• The Nightingale Research Foundation Definition of ME (letzte Revision 2016) [14]
  

QUELLEN: 

[1] “An investigation into an unusual disease seen in epidemic and sporadic form in a general practive in Cumberland in 1955 and subsequent years”A L Wallis
Thesis presented at the University of Edinburgh, 1957

[2] “Epidemic Neuromyasthenia – Clinical Syndrome?”Donald A. Henderson, Alexis Shelokov
NEJM, published April 9 1959; 260: 757 – 764

[3] “Postviral Fatigue Syndrome: The saga of Royal Free Disease”Melvin Ramsay MD
Printed in Great Britain by Butler And Tanner Ltd.

[4] “Postviral Fatigue Syndrome”Behan PO, Behan WM
Crit Rev Neurobiol., published 1988; 4 (2): 157 – 178

[5] “The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”Edited by Byron Marshall Hyde
The Nightingale Research Foundation, Published 1992

[6] “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Working Case Definition”Gary P. Holmes, M.D. et al
Ann Intern Med. 1988; 108:387-389

[7] “A report - chronic fatigue syndrome: guidelines for research“Dr M C Sharpe et al.
118 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Volume 84 February 1991

[8] “The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study”Keiji Fukuda MD, MPH et al.
Ann Intern Med., 1994 Dez 15, 121(12):953-9

[9] «Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical Practice Guidelines – 2002”Produced by a Working Group of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
MJA, Published May 6 2002, Volume 176

[10] “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A clinically empirical approach to its definition and study”William C Reeves et al.
BMC Medicine, Published December 15 2005

[11] “Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical Working Case Definition, Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols”Bruce M. Carruthers, MD, CM, FRCP(C) et al
Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Vol. 11(1) 2003

[12] “Report from The National Task Force on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome (PVFS), Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)”Dowsett EG, Goudsmit E, MacIntyre A, Shepherd CB
Westcare, pp. 96-98

[13] “Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Criteria and clinical Guidelines 2014.”Sandra Howes, Ellen M Goudsmit, Charles Shepherd
ME Association UK 

[14] The Nightingale Research FoundationOttawa, Ontario, Canada
https://www.nightingale.ca