Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a global health problem, and since 2001,
the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has published its strategy …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a major public health problem. It is
the fourth leading cause of chronic morbidity and mortality in the United States, and is …

Precision medicine is a patient-specific approach that integrates all relevant clinical, genetic
and biological information in order to optimise the therapeutic benefit relative to the …

Background: This document provides evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on the
management of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Methods: A …

Improving the care of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has been
the focus of many different organizations, and several have developed guidelines for …

Purpose Our objective was to revise the definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
using a conceptual model incorporating reliability and validity, and a novel iterative …

This Executive Summary of the Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention
of COPD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2017 report …

This document is an update of the original 1993 statement on community-acquired
pneumonia, incorporating new information about bacteriology, patient stratification, diagnostic …

We welcome the report by the SPIROMICS investigators in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine,
1 repeating our 2010 ECLIPSE analysis2 describing exacerbations in chronic obstructive …

Context Infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care units (ICUs)
worldwide. However, relatively little information is available about the global epidemiology of …