Reclaiming the name ‘bronchiectasis’
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Reclaiming the name 'bronchiectasis'.
Diseases should be defined by what they are, not by what they are not. The way we classify and name things has a significant impact on our behaviour and on our perception of their importance. Here we argue that clinicians and researchers should stop using the term ‘non-cystic fibrosis’ bronchiectasis to describe this common and disabling disease. Diseases are classified by putting patients into...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0040-6376,1468-3296
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2015-206956