Attitudes, training and smoking profile of European Respiratory Society members.

Smoking cessation in patients with respiratory diseases: a high priority, integral component of therapy.

Smoking cessation is the one of the most important ways to improve the prognosis of patients with respiratory disease. The Task Force on guidelines for smoking cessation in patients with respiratory diseases was convened to provide evidence-based recommendations on smoking cessation interventions in respiratory patients. Based on the currently available evidence and the consensus of an expert p...

The importance of components of pulmonary rehabilitation, other than exercise training, in COPD.

Comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation is an important component in the clinical management of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although supervised exercise training is considered the cornerstone of effective pulmonary rehabilitation, there are many other components that should be considered to manage the impairments and symptom burden, as well as the psychosocial and l...

The thoracic oncology specialist: curriculum recommendations in thoracic oncology training.

Affiliations: Service des Soins Intensifs et Urgences Oncologiques, Oncologie Thoracique, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium. Educational Activities Dept, European Respiratory Society, Lausanne, Switzerland. Division of Respiratory Medicine, Klinikum Straubing GmbH, Straubing, Germany. For a list of the Thoracic Oncology HERMES Task Force members and their affiliations see the Acknowledge...

Tobacco smoking: why do physicians not make diagnoses?

Respiratory support in spinal muscular atrophy type I: a survey of physician practices and attitudes.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is variability in the attitudes and practices of physicians regarding treatment of respiratory failure in children with spinal muscular atrophy type I (SMA type I) and, if so, whether this variation is associated with professional training. METHODS This was a descriptive, cross-sectional survey mailed to a randomly selected subset of the Child Neurology So...