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BTS guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults: update 2009
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Randomised controlled trial of amoxycillin clavulanate in children with chronic wet cough
1 Queensland Children's Respiratory Centre, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 2 Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 ...
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Future of academic respiratory medicine: near crisis point
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Relationship between peripheral airway dysfunction, airway obstruction, and neutrophilic inflammation in COPD
1 Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, Division of Infection, Inflammation and Repair, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK 2 Department of Molecular ...
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Quality of Life Questionnaire-Bronchiectasis: final psychometric analyses and determination of minimal important difference scores
Background The Quality of Life-Bronchiectasis (QOL-B), a self-administered, patient-reported outcome measure assessing symptoms, functioning and health-related quality of life for patients with ...
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Lung cancer in HIV infected patients: facts, questions and challenges
AIDS related mortality has fallen sharply in industrialised countries since 1996 following the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy. This has been accompanied by an increase in the ...
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Mechanisms of neutrophil transmigration across the vascular endothelium in COPD
Lung Function and Sleep Department, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, (New) Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Jennie Gane, Lung Function and Sleep ...
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No demonstrable effect of S-carboxymethylcysteine on clearance of secretions from the human lung.
The mucolytic efficacy of S-carboxymethylcysteine has been assessed in a double-blind crossover trial in 16 patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis. No significant difference was found between ...
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Cost effectiveness of an outpatient multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation programme
BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...
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Impact of COPD on cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes in people with established cardiovascular disease
Background Little is known about the association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in people with established CVD. Knowing if COPD is associated ...
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Cardiovascular medication use in patients with undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnoea
1 Sleep Disorders Centre, St Boniface General Hospital Research Centre, Section of Respiratory Diseases and Department of Medicine, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2 Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation ...
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Incidence and characteristics of viral community-acquired pneumonia in adults
Background: In adults, viral causes of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are poorly characterised. The aims of this study were to characterise the viral aetiology of CAP in adults by using an ...