Interstitial lung disease guideline: the British Thoracic ...

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Interstitial lung disease guideline: the BritishThoracic society in collaboration with the ThoracicSociety of Australia and New Zealand and the IrishThoracic SocietyA U Wells,1N Hirani,2on behalf of the British Thoracic society Interstitial Lung DiseaseGuideline Group, a subgroup of the British Thoracic society Standards of CareCommittee, in collaboration with the Thoracic society of Australia and New Zealandand the Irish Thoracic SocietycAdditional information ispublished in the onlineappendices (2, 5 11) at Brompton Hospital, Interstitial Lung disease Unit,London, UK.

guidelines, a new consensus classification had been proposed by a joint American Thoracic Society (ATS) and European Respiratory Society (ERS) committee.2 The new ATS/ERS terminology captured outcome differences in a number of studies comparing subsets of patients with IIP.2–4 13–18 The historical outcome distinctions between predominantly ...

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