EDITORIAL

Asthma guidelines

The new BTS/SIGN asthma guidelines: where evidence leads the way

B G Higgins¹, J G Douglas²

¹ Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
² Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr B G Higgins, Freeman Hospital, High Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, UK; b.g.higgins@ncl.ac.uk

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Announcing the publication of the new BTS/SIGN asthma guidelines as a supplement to this issue of Thorax.

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Keywords: asthma; BTS guidelines

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It is 12 years since the first British guidelines on asthma management in adults were published as two papers in the BMJ.^1,2 The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guidelines were rewritten in 1993³ with additional advice on childhood asthma, and further updated in 1995.⁴ Elsewhere, the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) published their guideline on the hospital management of asthma in 1996⁵ based on the BTS work, and subsequently published on the primary care management of asthma in 1998⁶ and the management of acute asthma in 1999.⁷ While the BTS versions have been among the most widely implemented of all clinical guidelines, there has been an increasing need to update them using evidence-based methodology and covering all aspects of asthma care. With this issue of Thorax the new British guidelines on the management of asthma⁸ produced jointly by the BTS and SIGN are published in a separate supplement. . . . [Full text of this article]

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