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At-risk registers integrated into primary care to stop asthma crises in the UK: cluster randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation

Background A regional trial indicated that implementing at-risk asthma registers in primary care could reduce hospital ...
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Sex-based differences in effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: systematic review and meta-anal…

Background Sex-based differences in immune response are well established, but whether men and women derive comparable benefit ...
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Maintaining the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD: a SPACE to fill

Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes, typically 8 weeks or longer in duration, deliver patient-tailored therapies including but not limited to exercise training, education and behaviour change to ...
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Blood culture bottle culture of pleural fluid in pleural infection

2 Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK 4 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Southmead ...
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A clinical approach to the use of methotrexate for sarcoidosis

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0564, USA Dr R P Baughman. If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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British Thoracic Society Guideline for the initial outpatient management of pulmonary embolism (PE)

Correspondence to Dr Luke S G E Howard, National Pulmonary Hypertension Service, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS, UK; l.howard{at}imperial.ac.uk ...
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Asthma and allergy patterns over 18 years after severe RSV bronchiolitis in the first year of life

5 Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia 6 The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of ...
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Using molecular testing and whole-genome sequencing for tuberculosis diagnosis in a low-burden setting: a cost-effectiveness analysis using transmission-dynamic modelling

Background Despite progress in TB control in low-burden countries like England and Wales, there are still diagnostic delays. Molecular testing and/or whole-genome sequencing (WGS) provide more rapid ...
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No effect of nebulised adrenaline on clinically important outcomes in viral bronchiolitis

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P61 Pooled analysis of objective cough frequency in participants with chronic cough treated with gefapixant in two phase 3 clinical trials (COUGH-1 and COUGH-2)

5 Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK 6 Albert Einstein College of ...
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Value of severity scales in predicting mortality from community-acquired pneumonia: systematic review and meta-analysis

1 School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, UK 2 Directorate of Medicine, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, Norfolk, UK ...
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Summary of the British Thoracic Society Guidelines for advanced diagnostic and therapeutic flexible bronchoscopy in adults

8 Department of Respiratory Medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital, London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and Imperial College, London, UK 9 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK ...