Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma: a look at the key differences between BTS/SIGN and NICE

John White, James Paton, Robert Niven, Hilary Pinnock On behalf of the British Thoracic Society The British Thoracic Society first produced a guideline on asthma and its management in 1990. The first collaborative guideline with the Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) using evidence-based medicine methodology was published in 2003 (1). It has since become a […]

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Winter Pressures

Merry Christmas to all Thorax readers, and everyone else as well. Having been mentioned in dispatches by Ian and Andy, it only seems fitting that I actually write something on this blog. I could write down here a litany of excuses for not having written missive #2, but as the majority of potential readers here […]

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