Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Guidelines for diagnosis and clinical management have advanced from consensus-based in 2000 to evidence-based in 2011

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 743-746

  Raghu, G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; OXYGEN;

AWARENESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; PULSE OXIMETRY; SURVIVAL TIME;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EUROPE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; LUNG; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PULMONARY MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953715636     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00017711     Document Type: Editorial

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