Table of contents

Chest clinic

Audit, research and guideline update

• Audit, research and guideline update: Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction with endobronchial valves for patients with heterogeneous emphysema and intact interlobar fissures (The BeLieVeR-HIFi trial): study design and rationale

  C Davey, Z Zoumot, S Jordan, D H Carr, M I Polkey, P L Shah, N S Hopkinson
• Audit, research and guideline update: Investigating and managing suspected pulmonary embolism in an outpatient setting: the Leicester experience

  Yusuf Vali, Rahul Ladwa, Elaine Bailie, Jonathan Bennett, Catherine Free
• Audit, research and guideline update: What happens to patients with COPD with long-term oxygen treatment who receive mechanical ventilation for COPD exacerbation? A 1-year retrospective follow-up study

  Negin Hajizadeh, Keith Goldfeld, Kristina Crothers
• Audit, research and guideline update: A UK-based resource to support the monitoring and safe use of anti-TB drugs and second-line treatment of multidrug-resistant TB

  J L Potter, T Capstick, W M Ricketts, N Whitehead, O M Kon

Basic science for the chest physician

• Basic Science for the Chest Physician: TB vaccine development: where are we and why is it so difficult?

  Morven E M Wilkie, Helen McShane

Pulmonary puzzles

• Pulmonary puzzles: Flow–volume loop: window to a smooth diagnosis?

  C Orton, S Ward, S Jordan, A Menzies-Gow, J H Hull

Journal club summaries

• Journal club summaries: What's hot that the other lot got

  Kathryn Prior