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 ...

Dr E Hnizdo, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, MS PB 163, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to establish the chronic effect of ...

Intensive Care Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK Correspondence to: Dr C S Garrard, Intensive Care Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; chris.garrard{at}clinical-medicine ...

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 ...

Background Despite exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) being both common and often fatal, accurate prognostication of patients hospitalised with an exacerbation is difficult.

Objective Little is known about how lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) before chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are associated with future exacerbations and mortality. We ...

1 School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK 2 Directorate of Medicine, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, Norfolk, UK ...

Rationale In patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and mild hypoxaemia, the clinical benefit of high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) remains unclear. We aimed to examine whether HFNO compared with conventional ...

3 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Correspondence to Dr Mei-Shu Lai, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Diseases, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia Professor P ...