Interstitial Lung Disease Center, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, ...

Cardiology Unit of the Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York Pulmonary Disease Unit of the Department of Medicine, University of ...

BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to investigate the compliance with and accuracy of peak flow diaries in childhood asthma. METHODS Forty asthmatic children (5–16 years) were asked to perform peak ...

Background Reports of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) use in clinical practice reveal higher mortality rates than in corresponding randomised clinical trials. Aim To explore factors related to chronic ...

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British Thoracic Society Standards of Care Committee in collaboration with and endorsed by the Royal College of Physicians of London, Royal College of General Practitioners, British Geriatrics Society ...

A series of review articles on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease beginning in this issue of Thorax will consider many of the basic science and clinical aspects and provide the clinical scientist ...

Academic Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London EC1A 7BE, UK BACKGROUND Although it is presumed that exacerbations ...

Background The natural history and time course of the onset of exacerbation events of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is incompletely understood. Methods A prospective cohort of 212 ...

The North West Lung Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK Dr A Bentley The North West Lung Centre, University Hospital of South ...

Correspondence to British Thoracic Society, 17, Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL, UK; bts{at}brit-thoracic.org.uk and Dr Charlotte E Bolton, Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of ...

Department of Psychiatry, Prince of Wales and Shatin Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Dr A M Li, Department of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese ...