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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - Management
Basis for recommendation
This information is derived from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guideline Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults in primary and secondary care (partial update) [National Clinical Guideline Centre, 2010; NICE, 2010], the Global strategy for diagnosis, management, and prevention of COPD [GOLD, 2009], a guideline on interstitial lung disease from the British Thoracic Society in collaboration with the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Irish Thoracic Society [Bradley et al, 2008], and a study of the validity of primary care diagnosis of COPD [Sichletidis et al, 2007].
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