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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

Background Compared with cytotoxic chemotherapy, the efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for patients ...
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Mobile health pulmonary rehabilitation (m-PR): a randomised controlled equivalence trial

Background Mobile health (mHealth) is a novel model of care that may overcome barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) ...
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New NICE asthma guideline: evidence-based gold standard approach or unachievable utopia?

The number of asthma deaths among children and young people (CYP) in the UK has remained stubbornly constant despite advances in medication, delivery systems and maintenance and reliever therapy ...
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Guidelines for the physiotherapy management of the adult, medical, spontaneously breathing patient

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Seasonal temperature variability and emergency hospital admissions for respiratory diseases: a population-based cohort study

1 School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong Background Climate change increases global mean temperature ...
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Greater recovery after critical illness (GRACE): a call to action to create a new roadmap for critical illness research

For decades, most critical care patients have survived hospitalisation, supporting increased attention on the long-term ...
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Smoking cessation guidelines for health professionals: an update

This paper updates the evidence base and key recommendations of the Health Education Authority (HEA) smoking cessation guidelines for health professionals published in Thorax in 1998. The strategy for ...
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Postoperative pulmonary complications following thoracic surgery: are there any modifiable risk factors?

2 Department of Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Coventry University, School of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry, UK 3 Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, ...
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Intensive care unit interventions to promote sleep and circadian biology in reducing incident delirium: a scoping review

Rationale/Objectives Despite plausible pathophysiological mechanisms, research is needed to confirm the relationship between sleep, circadian rhythm and delirium in patients admitted to the intensive ...
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Supplemental oxygen during pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD with exercise hypoxaemia

Academic Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew's and Royal London Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and London Chest Hospital, London, UK Dr J A Wedzicha, Academic Respiratory Medicine, Dominion House, ...
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Increased circulating endothelial microparticles in COPD patients: a potential biomarker for COPD exacerbation susceptibility

1 Department of Advanced Preventive Medicine for Infectious Disease, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan 2 Department of Anaesthesiology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, ...
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Usefulness of the Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea scale as a measure of disability in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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 ...