Abbreviations: AASM American Academy of Sleep Medicine; ACCP American College of Chest Physicians; AHI apnea-hypopnea index; AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; ATS American Thoracic Society; CPAP continuous positive airway pressure; EMG electromyogram; ERC Evidence Review Committee; LR likelihood ratio; RDI respiratory disturbance index; REM rapid eye movement; ROC receiver operat...

A lthough clinical practice guidelines offer considerable promise for improving health-care outcomes, significant hurdles exist in implementing guideline recommendations. The conference attendees and invited experts participated in three discussion groups that developed recommendations for assisting the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) in adopting strategies for guideline implementat...

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a lifelong autoimmune inflammatory disease of unknown origin. An early diagnosis RA could improve the outcome. Several autoantibodies have been found in patients. Objective: To evaluate incidence against Sjögren's syndrome antigen A (SSA) and double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (dsDNA) patients to detect association between their presence severity mark...

The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education issued revised standards (Standards 2007) for professional programs leading to the Doctor of Pharmacy degree in July 2007. The new standards require colleges and schools of pharmacy to provide pharmacy practice experiences that include direct interaction with diverse patient populations. These experiences are to take place in multiple practice en...

OBJECTIVE Current clinical trials are investigating the role of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) versus sublobar resection for patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and marginal pulmonary function tests (M-PFTs). We compared the outcomes of patients undergoing lobectomy with M-PFTs characterized by 2 accepted M-PFT criteria. METHODS A total of 1,259 consecutive patient...

SAN FRANCISCO – A proposed new definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome describes categories based on mild, moderate, or severe hypoxemia that correlate increasing severity with significantly increased mortality or increased time on mechanical ventilation among survivors. The draft definition, created under a consensus process by an international panel of experts, was refined by empiri...

2004;126;14S-34S Chest Douglas C. McCrory, Terry A. Fortin and James E. Loyd Michael McGoon, David Gutterman, Virginia Steen, Robin Barst, Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines : ACCP * Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Screening, Early Detection, and Diagnosis of http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/126/1_suppl/14S.full.html services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The o...