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Cost effectiveness of an outpatient multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation programme
BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...
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Time course and pattern of COPD exacerbation onset
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 ...
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Long-term low-dose erythromycin in patients with unexplained chronic cough: a double-blind placebo controlled trial
Aims Unexplained chronic cough is a common condition with no satisfactory treatments. Previous work has suggested that cough may be linked to neutrophilic airway inflammation. This study tested the ...
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Usefulness of the Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea scale as a measure of disability in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
a Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London Chest Hospital, London, UK, b Division of Physiological Medicine, St George’s ...
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Non-volitional assessment of skeletal muscle strength in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
1 Respiratory Muscle Laboratory, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London, UK Background: Although quadriceps weakness is well recognised in chronic obstructive ...
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British Thoracic Society community acquired pneumonia guideline and the NICE pneumonia guideline: how they fit together
The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) published in 2009 was compared with the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care ...
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Leisure-time vigorous physical activity is associated with better lung function: the prospective ECRHS study
Objective We assessed associations between physical activity and lung function, and its decline, in the prospective population-based European Community Respiratory Health Survey cohort.
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Identification and validation of distinct biological phenotypes in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome by cluster analysis
4 Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rationale We hypothesised that patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can ...
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Gender differences in airway behaviour over the human life span
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • 11: Fitness to fly with COPD
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 ...
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Managing passengers with stable respiratory disease planning air travel: British Thoracic Society recommendations
1 National Heart & Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London, UK 2 National Heart & Lung Institute, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London, UK Correspondence to Dr ...
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Validation of predictive rules and indices of severity for community acquired pneumonia
Background: A study was undertaken to validate the modified American Thoracic Society (ATS) rule and two British Thoracic Society (BTS) rules for the prediction of ICU admission and mortality of ...