© 2004 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Thoracic Society
EDITORIAL
COPD guidelines
Peer review and NICE COPD guidelines
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor J A Wedzicha
Editor in Chief, Thorax Editorial Office, 17 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL, UK; J.A.Wedzicha@qmul.ac.uk
New COPD guidelines from NICE
Keywords: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NICE guidelines
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Over the years Thorax has published a number of valuable clinical guidelines, and these have been subject to formal peer review as for any original paper.1–13 With this issue of Thorax we publish as a supplement the full version of the clinical guidelines for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).14 Unlike the previous guidelines mainly produced through the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS), these COPD guidelines have been developed by the NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence) Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions.
These COPD guidelines were not sent out for further review once received by Thorax as the review process within the guideline development programme has been formal and carried out according to the regulations for guideline development established by NICE. The guideline was developed and produced by the Guideline Development Group (GDG) which met regularly over an 18 month period
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