Contributors | |
Acknowledgement to Cochrane Library | |
Practising evidence-based respiratory medicine | |
Introduction | |
Diagnostic strategies | |
Presenting symptoms | |
Lung function testing | |
Chest radiographic and CT patterns | |
Diagnostic strategies in pulmonary embolism: an evidence-based approach | |
Screening for lung cancer | |
Therapeutics: general issues | |
Adherence and self-management | |
Corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis | |
Helping people to stop smoking | |
Asthma | |
Acute exacerbations | |
Chronic therapy: beta-agonists û short-acting, long-acting beta2-agonists | |
Inhaled corticosteroids in the treatment of asthma | |
Anti-leukotrienes | |
Asthma education | |
.2.6 Non-pharmacological and complementary interventions to manage asthma | |
Difficult asthma | |
Novel therapies in asthma: long-acting beta2-agonists/inhaled corticosteroids | |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease û acute exacerbations | |
Anticholinergic bronchodilators in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease therapy | |
Inhaled corticosteroids in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
Combination of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta2-agonists in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
Systemic corticosteroids in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
Lung volume reduction | |
Infection | |
Bronchitis and sinusitis | |
Community-acquired pneumonia | |
Pulmonary tuberculosis | |
Influenza: vaccination and treatment | |
Bronchiectasis | |
Adult cystic fibrosis | |
Antibiotics in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis and cystic fibrosis | |
Respiratory failure/sleep disordered breathing | |
Respiratory rehabilitation | |
Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure | |
Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in stable patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. What is the evidence? | |
The treatment of the obstructive sleep apnoeaûhypopnoea syndrome | |
Long-term oxygen therapy for chronic respiratory failure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |
Diffuse lung disease/pleural disease/thromboembolism | |
Diffuse lung disease | |
The treatment of cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis | |
Evidence-based approach to treatment of sarcoidosis | |
Hypersensitivity pneumonitis | |
Pleural disease | |
Therapy of pulmonary thromboembolism: an evidence-based approach | |
Pulmonary hypertension | |
Index | |
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