EDITORIAL

COPD guidelines

NICE guidance for COPD

D Halpin

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Correspondence to:
D Halpin
Consultant Physician & Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine, Chair, Guideline Development Group, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK; d.m.g.halpin@ex.ac.uk

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A further step in the process of developing better service and standards of care for patients with COPD

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Keywords: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NICE guidelines

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The full version of the new NICE guidelines on the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is published as a supplement to this issue of Thorax.¹ These guidelines have been developed for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) by the National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions (NCC-CC) based at the Royal College of Physicians, London with the involvement of many members of the British Thoracic Society (BTS). The Guideline Development Group and Consensus Reference Group involved in the production of the guidelines included members with diverse professional backgrounds and, crucially, also included patient representatives. The scope of the guidelines is wide. They address the diagnosis and assessment of people with COPD as well as the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of stable disease and exacerbations.

With the recent update to the GOLD guidelines² and the forthcoming publication of joint guidelines by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) . . . [Full text of this article]

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