TY - JOUR T1 - British Thoracic Society guideline on pulmonary rehabilitation in adults: does objectivity have a sliding scale? JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 387 LP - 388 DO - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204684 VL - 69 IS - 4 AU - Alison K McConnell AU - Rik Gosselink Y1 - 2014/04/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/69/4/387.abstract N2 - We congratulate the Guideline Development Group (GDG) on the publication of their new pulmonary rehabilitation guideline.1 However, we are concerned by the contrasting recommendations for limb resistance training (LRT), which is recommended, and for inspiratory muscle training (IMT), which is not. Both interventions have identical levels of evidence (1+) and similar evidence statements.The evidence statement in relation to LRT is as follows: In patients with COPD, resistance training in combination with aerobic training does not lead to additional benefits to health-related quality of life, dyspnoea or exercise tolerance compared with aerobic training alone. (Evidence level 1+) The GDG puts forward a number of … ER -