Background In real-world chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care, poor adherence often leads to treatment ...

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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Survival benefit of immune checkpoint inhibitors for non-small cell lung cancer patients with interstitial lung diseases: a nationwide population-based study ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Professor Weihong Chen, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ...

Background We performed an analysis of UK respiratory disease epidemiology covering 2004–2012. Findings pertaining to COPD are presented here. Methods Prevalence and incidence rates were estimated ...

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 ...

Superseded By 2013 Guideline: British Thoracic Society Guidelines on Diagnostic Flexible Bronchoscopy. Thorax 2001 Feb; 56(Suppl 1): 1–21.

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 ...