1 The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR Correspondence to William B Goggins III, The Jockey Club School of Public Health ...

3 Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA 4 Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, New York, USA 5 Department of ...

NICE guideline NG115 for COPD recommend Airways Clearance Techniques (ACTs) for people with excessive sputum but there have been no studies comparing different ACTs. Aim To compare Oscillatory ...

Introduction and objectives The DVLA produced new guidelines ‘Assessing Fitness to Drive – a guide for medical professionals’ in March 2016. An online survey was designed to seek opinion about the ...

BACKGROUND The Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire (CRQ) is an established measure of health status for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It has been found to be reproducible and sensitive ...

1 Department of Palliative Medicine, The North London Hospice and Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, London N12 8TF, UK 2 Department of Palliative Medicine, Bristol Haematology and Oncology ...

Background The aim of this study was to estimate the long-term (cost-) effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods A ...

Correspondence to: A O C Johnson, Department of General and Respiratory Medicine, Pontefract General Infirmary, Pontefract WF8 1PL, UK; owen.johnson{at}panp-tr.northy.nhs.uk For most passengers, even ...

Correspondence to Professor Claire L Shovlin, Professor of Practice (Clinical and Molecular Medicine), NHLI Vascular Science, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Translational and ...

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 ...

2 Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to F M Struik, Department of ...

Aintree Chest Centre and University of Liverpool Department of Medicine, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to: Dr L Davies Aintree Chest Centre, University Hospital Aintree, ...