Background: Although several tools to evaluate the credibility of health care guidelines exist,
guidance on practical steps for developing guidelines is lacking. We systematically …

The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Infectious
Diseases Society of America jointly sponsored the development of this guideline for the …

… Jan Brozek, MD,a Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University
Health Sciences Centre, 1200 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5, Canada. Enrico …

Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is recognized as a core component of the management
of individuals with chronic respiratory disease. Since the 2006 American Thoracic Society (…

In the GRADE approach, randomized trials start as high-quality evidence and observational
studies as low-quality evidence, but both can be rated down if a body of evidence is …

Sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) has gained wide accep-tance in many European countries
and has raised the level of interest in immunotherapy among practicing allergists and …

Severe or therapy-resistant asthma is increasingly recognised as a major unmet need. A
Task Force, supported by the European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society, …

It is important to realize that guidelines cannot always account for individual variation among
patients. They are not intended to supplant physician judgment with respect to particular …

BACKGROUND: Allergic rhinitis represents a global health problem affecting 10% to 20% of
the population. The Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines have been …

… Author links open overlay panel Jan L. Brożek MD, PhD a b , Jean Bousquet MD, PhD c ,
Ioana Agache MD, PhD d , Arnav Agarwal BHSc a e , Claus Bachert MD, PhD f , Sinthia Bosnic-…