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Disproportionate increase in COPD exacerbation risk for 3 months after discontinuing LAMA or ICS: insights from the FLAME trial

Background In real-world chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care, poor adherence often leads to treatment ...
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Commentary on the 2024 British Thoracic Society Specialty Trainee Survey report

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Relationship between exacerbation frequency and lung function decline in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London EC1A 7BE, UK Correspondence to: Professor J A Wedzicha, Academic Unit of Respiratory ...
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Development of a symptom specific health status measure for patients with chronic cough: Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ)

Background: Chronic cough is a common condition which has a significant impact on quality of life. Assessment and management are hampered by the absence of well validated outcome measures. The ...
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Understanding the impact of second-hand smoke exposure on clinical outcomes in participants with COPD in the SPIROMICS cohort

1 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 3 University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, ...
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British Thoracic Society guideline for diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy in adults: accredited by NICE

3 The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University Hospital South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK 4 University Hospital of South Manchester, ...
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Recommendations for the assessment and management of cough in children

Department of Child Health, Queen’s University of Belfast, Clinical Institute, Belfast, UK All children experience head colds and many consult their doctor because of associated coughing.1 Cough with ...
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Comparison of spontaneous and induced sputum for investigation of airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London Chest Hospital, London E2 9JX, UK Dr J A Wedzicha. BACKGROUND Although sputum ...
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P117 Comparison of indices of nutritional status in prediction of in-hospital mortality and early readmission of patients with acute exacerbations of COPD

Introduction and objectives In patients hospitalised with an acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD), low body mass index (BMI) predicts in-hospital death. The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) ...
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Time to diagnose and improve outcomes in people with breathlessness: a call for action

Breathlessness (breathing discomfort, dyspnoea)1 is the most common, distressing and limiting symptom in people with cardiorespiratory disease. Rising steeply in prevalence with age, the burden of ...
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Reliability of methods to estimate the fraction of inspired oxygen in patients with acute respiratory failure breathing through non-rebreather reservoir bag oxygen mask

Severity of hypoxaemia can be assessed using the partial pressure of arterial oxygen to fraction of inspired oxygen ratio (FiO2). However, in patients breathing through non-rebreather reservoir bag ...
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Risk factors for complicated parapneumonic effusion and empyema on presentation to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia

Background: The aim of this study was to identify key factors on admission predicting the development of complicated parapneumonic effusion or empyema in patients admitted with community-acquired ...