作者
Bartolome R Celli, WATS MacNee, AATS Agusti, Antonio Anzueto, B Berg, A Sonia Buist, Peter MA Calverley, N Chavannes, T Dillard, B Fahy, A Fein, J Heffner, S Lareau, P Meek, F Martinez, W McNicholas, J Muris, E Austegard, Romain Pauwels, S Rennard, A Rossi, N Siafakas, B Tiep, J Vestbo, E Wouters, R ZuWallack
发表日期
2004/6/1
期刊
European Respiratory Journal
卷号
23
期号
6
页码范围
932-946
出版商
European Respiratory Society
简介
Background
The Standards for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with COPD document 2004 updates the position papers on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) published by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in 1995 1, 2. Both societies felt the need to update the previous documents due to the following. 1) The prevalence and overall importance of COPD as a health problem is increasing. 2) There have been enough advances in the field to require an update, especially adapted to the particular needs of the ATS/ERS constituency. 3) It allows for the creation of a “live” modular document based on the web; it should provide healthcare professionals and patients with a user friendly and reliable authoritative source of information. 4) The care of COPD should be comprehensive, is often multidisciplinary and rapidly changing. 5) Both the ATS and the …
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