BMJ Open Respiratory Research: 4 (1)

Sleep

Can postural OSA be usefully identified from its severity alone? (20 December, 2017)
Aihem Johar, Chris D Turnbull, John R Stradling

Respiratory physiology

International perception of lung sounds: a comparison of classification across some European borders (18 December, 2017)
Juan Carlos Aviles-Solis, Sophie Vanbelle, Peder A Halvorsen, Nick Francis, Jochen W L Cals, Elena A Andreeva, Alda Marques, Päivi Piirilä, Hans Pasterkamp, Hasse Melbye
Poor cough flow in acute stroke patients is associated with reduced functional residual capacity and low cough inspired volume (26 October, 2017)
Katie Ward, Prashant Rao, Charles C Reilly, Gerrard Francis Rafferty, Michael I Polkey, Lalit Kalra, John Moxham

Cross sectional study or survey

Sputum colour can identify patients with neutrophilic inflammation in asthma (9 October, 2017)
Kavita Pabreja, Peter Gibson, Alyssa J Lochrin, Lisa Wood, Katherine J Baines, Jodie L Simpson
Respiratory symptoms are more common among short sleepers independent of obesity (30 August, 2017)
Erla Björnsdóttir, Christer Janson, Eva Lindberg, Erna Sif Arnardottir, Bryndís Benediktsdóttir, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Anne Elie Carsin, Francisco Gómez Real, Kjell Torén, Joachim Heinrich, Dennis Nowak, José Luis Sánchez-Ramos, Pascal Demoly, Sandra Dorado Arenas, Ramon Coloma Navarro, Vivi Schlünssen, Chantal Raherison, Debbie L Jarvis, Thorarinn Gislason

Non-invasive ventilation

Evaluation by various methods of the physiological mechanism of a high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) in healthy volunteers (20 July, 2017)
Miyuki Okuda, Nobuya Tanaka, Kazuyuki Naito, Takao Kumada, Koji Fukuda, Yuto Kato, Yuto Kido, Yutaro Okuda, Ryuji Nohara

Reviewers

Thank you to our reviewers (5 June, 2017) Free

Pleural Disease

Efficacy of sonographic and biological pleurodesis indicators of malignant pleural effusion (SIMPLE): protocol of a randomised controlled trial (20 November, 2017)
Ioannis Psallidas, Hania E G Piotrowska, Ahmed Yousuf, Nikolaos I Kanellakis, Gayathri Kagithala, Seid Mohammed, Lei Clifton, John P Corcoran, Nicky Russell, Melissa Dobson, Robert F Miller, Najib M Rahman
Assessment of patient-reported outcome measures in pleural interventions (3 July, 2017)
Ioannis Psallidas, Ahmed Yousuf, Ambika Talwar, Rob J Hallifax, Eleanor K Mishra, John P Corcoran, Nabeel Ali, Najib M Rahman

Paediatric lung disease

Listening panel agreement and characteristics of lung sounds digitally recorded from children aged 1–59 months enrolled in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) case–control study (30 June, 2017)
Eric D McCollum, Daniel E Park, Nora L Watson, W Chris Buck, Charatdao Bunthi, Akash Devendra, Bernard E Ebruke, Mounya Elhilali, Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Anthony J Garcia-Prats, Leah Githinji, Lokman Hossain, Shabir A Madhi, David P Moore, Justin Mulindwa, Dan Olson, Juliet O Awori, Warunee P Vandepitte, Charl Verwey, James E West, Maria D Knoll, Katherine L O'Brien, Daniel R Feikin, Laura L Hammitt
CPAP IMPACT: a protocol for a randomised trial of bubble continuous positive airway pressure versus standard care for high-risk children with severe pneumonia using adaptive design methods (30 June, 2017)
Andrew G Smith, Michelle Eckerle, Tisungane Mvalo, Brian Weir, Francis Martinson, Alfred Chalira, Norman Lufesi, Innocent Mofolo, Mina Hosseinipour, Eric D McCollum

Interstitial lung disease

Design of the PF-ILD trial: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase III trial of nintedanib in patients with progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease (17 September, 2017)
Kevin R Flaherty, Kevin K Brown, Athol U Wells, Emmanuelle Clerisme-Beaty, Harold R Collard, Vincent Cottin, Anand Devaraj, Yoshikazu Inoue, Florence Le Maulf, Luca Richeldi, Hendrik Schmidt, Simon Walsh, William Mezzanotte, Rozsa Schlenker-Herceg
Clinical use of nintedanib in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (28 June, 2017)
Amy Hajari Case, Peace Johnson
Metabolic heterogeneity of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a metabolomic study (5 June, 2017)
Yidan D Zhao, Li Yin, Stephen Archer, Catherine Lu, George Zhao, Yan Yao, Licun Wu, Michael Hsin, Thomas K Waddell, Shaf Keshavjee, John Granton, Marc de Perrot

Pulmonary vasculature

Combining creative writing and narrative analysis to deliver new insights into the impact of pulmonary hypertension (5 June, 2017)
Julia C Goddard, Iain J Armstrong, David G Kiely, Charlie A Elliot, Athanasios Charalampopoulos, Robin Condliffe, Brendan J Stone, Ian Sabroe

Respiratory infection

Effect of vitamin D_₃ on the antimicrobial activity of human airway surface liquid: preliminary results of a randomised placebo-controlled double-blind trial
(4 June, 2017)
Luis G Vargas Buonfiglio, Marlene Cano, Alejandro A Pezzulo, Oriana G Vanegas Calderon, Joseph Zabner, Alicia K Gerke, Alejandro P Comellas

Respiratory epidemiology

London ambulance source data on choking incidence for the calendar year 2016: an observational study (10 December, 2017)
Matthew J Pavitt, Joanne Nevett, Laura L Swanton, Matthew D Hind, Michael I Polkey, Malcolm Green, Nicholas S Hopkinson
Rapid decline in lung function in healthy adults predicts incident excess urinary albumin excretion later in life (29 July, 2017)
Sapna Bhatia, Clifford Qualls, Thomas A Crowell, Alexander Arynchyn, Bharat Thyagarajan, Lewis J Smith, Ravi Kalhan, David R Jacobs, Holly Kramer, Daniel Duprez, Bartolome Celli, Akshay Sood

Cough

Sound: a non-invasive measure of cough intensity (12 May, 2017)
Kai K Lee, Sergio Matos, Katie Ward, Gerrard F Rafferty, John Moxham, David H Evans, Surinder S Birring

Respiratory research

Burden of bacterial upper respiratory tract pathogens in school children of Nepal (13 October, 2017)
Sangita Thapa, Shishir Gokhale, Annavarapu Laxminarasimha Sharma, Lokendra Bahadur Sapkota, Shamshul Ansari, Rajendra Gautam, Sony Shrestha, Puja Neopane
Are within-person Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) ratings of breathlessness ‘on average’ valid in advanced disease for patients and for patients’ informal carers? (11 October, 2017)
Joshua Wade, Silvia Mendonca, Sara Booth, Gail Ewing, A Carole Gardener, Morag Farquhar
Singing for Lung Health: a qualitative assessment of a British Lung Foundation programme for group leaders (29 July, 2017)
Adam Lewis, Phoene Cave, Nicholas S Hopkinson
Manual ventilation and open suction procedures contribute to negative pressures in a mechanical lung model (8 May, 2017)
Espen Rostrup Nakstad, Helge Opdahl, Fridtjof Heyerdahl, Fredrik Borchsenius, Ole Henning Skjønsberg

Asthma

Differentiation of quantitative CT imaging phenotypes in asthma versus COPD (9 November, 2017)
Sanghun Choi, Babak Haghighi, Jiwoong Choi, Eric A Hoffman, Alejandro P Comellas, John D Newell, Sally E Wenzel, Mario Castro, Sean B Fain, Nizar N Jarjour, Mark L Schiebler, R Graham Barr, MeiLan K Han, Eugene R Bleecker, Christopher B Cooper, David Couper, Nadia Hansel, Richard E Kanner, Ella A Kazerooni, Eric A C Kleerup, Fernando J Martinez, Wanda K O’Neal, Prescott G Woodruff, Ching-Long Lin
Concordance of opinions between patients and physicians and their relationship with symptomatic control and future risk in patients with moderate–severe asthma (13 September, 2017)
Astrid Crespo-Lessmann, Vicente Plaza, Francisco-Javier González-Barcala, Toni Fernández-Sánchez, Joaquín Sastre
Assessing the use of BreatheSmart® mobile technology in adult patients with asthma: a remote observational study (16 August, 2017)
Emilie Melvin, Anna Cushing, Anne Tam, Ruri Kitada, Melissa Manice
Description of the protocol for the PRACTICAL study: a randomised controlled trial of the efficacy and safety of ICS/LABA reliever therapy in asthma (29 July, 2017)
James Fingleton, Jo Hardy, Christina Baggott, Janine Pilcher, Andrew Corin, Robert J Hancox, Matire Harwood, Mark Holliday, Helen K Reddel, Philippa Shirtcliffe, Suzanne Snively, Mark Weatherall, Richard Beasley
Rural to urban migration is associated with increased prevalence of childhood wheeze in a Latin-American city (3 July, 2017)
Alejandro Rodriguez, Maritza G Vaca, Martha E Chico, Laura C Rodrigues, Mauricio L Barreto, Philip J Cooper
Factors associated with relapse in adult patients discharged from the emergency department following acute asthma: a systematic review (27 January, 2017)
Jesse Hill, Nicholas Arrotta, Cristina Villa-Roel, Liz Dennett, Brian H Rowe

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Predictive value of prebronchodilator and postbronchodilator spirometry for COPD features and outcomes (18 December, 2017)
Spyridon Fortis, Michael Eberlein, Dimitris Georgopoulos, Alejandro P Comellas
Endobronchial valves for emphysema: an individual patient-level reanalysis of randomised controlled trials (2 November, 2017)
Karin Klooster, Dirk-Jan Slebos, Zaid Zoumot, Claire Davey, Pallav L Shah, Nicholas S Hopkinson
Higher BMI is associated with higher expiratory airflow normalised for lung volume (FEF25–75/FVC) in COPD (13 October, 2017)
Eric Abston, Alejandro Comellas, Robert Michael Reed, Victor Kim, Robert A Wise, Roy Brower, Spyridon Fortis, Reinhard Beichel, Surya Bhatt, Joseph Zabner, John Newell, Eric A Hoffman, Michael Eberlein
Effect of high-flow nasal therapy during acute aerobic exercise in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after exacerbation: protocol for a randomised, controlled, cross-over trial (16 August, 2017)
Guillaume Prieur, Clement Medrinal, Yann Combret, Aurora Robledo Quesada, Fabrice Prieur, Jean Quieffin, Jean Christian Borel, Gregory Reychler
Adjuncts for sputum clearance in COPD: clinical consensus versus actual use (29 July, 2017)
Ruth Barker, Anthony A Laverty, Nicholas S Hopkinson
Evaluation of the current landscape of respiratory nurse specialists in the UK: planning for the future needs of patients (29 July, 2017)
Janelle Yorke, Sam Prigmore, Matt Hodson, Carol Stonham, Hannah Long, Sarah Bellhouse, Monica Fletcher, Sheila Edwards
Frailty and patient-reported outcomes in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: are they independent entities? (3 July, 2017)
Masaaki Kusunose, Toru Oga, Saya Nakamura, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Koichi Nishimura
Environmental triggers of COPD symptoms: a case cross-over study (3 July, 2017)
Susan R Sama, David Kriebel, Rebecca J Gore, Rebecca DeVries, Richard Rosiello
Breathing–swallowing discoordination is associated with frequent exacerbations of COPD (4 June, 2017)
Shinsuke Nagami, Yoshitaka Oku, Naomi Yagi, Susumu Sato, Ryuji Uozumi, Satoshi Morita, Yoshie Yamagata, Jun Kayashita, Kazuya Tanimura, Atsuyasu Sato, Ryosuke Takahashi, Shigeo Muro
Decreased left ventricular stroke volume is associated with low-grade exercise tolerance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (25 January, 2017)
Sumito Inoue, Yoko Shibata, Hiroyuki Kishi, Joji Nitobe, Tadateru Iwayama, Yoshinori Yashiro, Takako Nemoto, Kento Sato, Masamichi Sato, Tomomi Kimura, Akira Igarashi, Yoshikane Tokairin, Isao Kubota
ACE and response to pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD: two observational studies (8 March, 2017)
Samantha S C Kon, Caroline J Jolley, Dinesh Shrikrishna, Hugh E Montgomery, James R A Skipworth, Zudin Puthucheary, John Moxham, Michael I Polkey, William D-C Man, Nicholas S Hopkinson
Plasma sphingolipids in HIV-associated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (3 April, 2017)
Shane Hodgson, Timothy J Griffin, Cavan Reilly, Stephen Harvey, Bruce A Witthuhn, Brian J Sandri, Ken M Kunisaki, Chris H Wendt
Effect of β-blockade on lung function, exercise performance and dynamic hyperinflation in people with arterial vascular disease with and without COPD (5 April, 2017)
Angela Key, Matthew Parry, Malcolm A West, Rebecca Asher, Sandy Jack, Nick Duffy, Francesco Torella, Paul P Walker
Design of the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD (SPIROMICS) AIR Study (18 May, 2017)
Nadia N Hansel, Laura M Paulin, Amanda J Gassett, Roger D Peng, Neil Alexis, Vincent S Fan, Eugene Bleecker, Russell Bowler, Alejandro P Comellas, Mark Dransfield, MeiLan K Han, Victor Kim, Jerry A Krishnan, Cheryl Pirozzi, Christopher B Cooper, Fernando Martinez, Prescott G Woodruff, Patrick J Breysse, R Graham Barr, Joel D Kaufman

Critical care

Effect of a machine learning-based severe sepsis prediction algorithm on patient survival and hospital length of stay: a randomised clinical trial (9 November, 2017)
David W Shimabukuro, Christopher W Barton, Mitchell D Feldman, Samson J Mataraso, Ritankar Das
Effect of anti-podoplanin antibody administration during lipopolysaccharide-induced lung injury in mice (8 November, 2017)
Sian Lax, Julie Rayes, David R Thickett, Steve P Watson
ARDS following oesophagectomy: a comparison of two trials (2 November, 2017)
Phillip A Howells, Kerrie A Aldridge, Dhruv Parekh, Daniel Park, Olga Tucker, Rachel C A Dancer, Fang Gao, Gavin D Perkins, David R Thickett
Lower airways inflammation in patients with ARDS measured using endotracheal aspirates: a pilot study (4 September, 2017)
Savino Spadaro, Iryna Kozhevnikova, Paolo Casolari, Paolo Ruggeri, Tiziana Bellini, Riccardo Ragazzi, Federica Barbieri, Elisabetta Marangoni, Gaetano Caramori, Carlo Alberto Volta
Effects of different early rehabilitation techniques on haemodynamic and metabolic parameters in sedated patients: protocol for a randomised, single-bind, cross-over trial (30 January, 2017)
Clément Medrinal, Yann Combret, Guillaume Prieur, Aurora Robledo Quesada, Tristan Bonnevie, Francis Edouard Gravier, Éric Frenoy, Olivier Contal, Bouchra Lamia

Cystic fibrosis

Timing of hypertonic saline and airway clearance techniques in adults with cystic fibrosis during pulmonary exacerbation: pilot data from a randomised crossover study (12 January, 2017)
Katherine O'Neill, Fidelma Moran, Michael M Tunney, J Stuart Elborn, Ian Bradbury, Damian G Downey, Jackie Rendall, Judy M Bradley

Guidelines

British Thoracic Society Guideline for oxygen use in adults in healthcare and emergency settings (15 May, 2017)
B R O'Driscoll, L S Howard, J Earis, V Mak
British Thoracic Society Guideline for the management of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) (19 October, 2017)
Charles S Haworth, John Banks, Toby Capstick, Andrew J Fisher, Thomas Gorsuch, Ian F Laurenson, Andrew Leitch, Michael R Loebinger, Heather J Milburn, Mark Nightingale, Peter Ormerod, Delane Shingadia, David Smith, Nuala Whitehead, Robert Wilson, R Andres Floto

Lung cancer

Integrated care for resected early stage lung cancer: innovations and exploring patient needs (12 June, 2017)
Jan Ho, Annette McWilliams, Jon Emery, Christobel Saunders, Christopher Reid, Suzanne Robinson, Fraser Brims
Accuracy of transbronchial biopsy as a rebiopsy method for patients with relapse of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer after systemic chemotherapy (10 January, 2017)
Hidenobu Ishii, Koichi Azuma, Kazuhiko Yamada, Norikazu Matsuo, Masayuki Nakamura, Takaaki Tokito, Takashi Kinoshita, Tomoaki Hoshino

Lung transplantation

Long-term outcomes of patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations considered for lung transplantation, compared with similarly hypoxaemic cohorts (13 October, 2017)
Claire L Shovlin, Elisabetta Buscarini, J Michael B Hughes, David J Allison, James E Jackson
Early extracellular matrix changes are associated with later development of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after lung transplantation (12 April, 2017)
Catharina Müller, Annika Andersson-Sjöland, Hans Henrik Schultz, Leif T Eriksson, Claus B Andersen, Martin Iversen, Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson

Tuberculosis

Alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking in relation to risk of active tuberculosis: prospective cohort study (13 October, 2017)
Avril Zixin Soh, Cynthia Bin Eng Chee, Yee-Tang Wang, Jian-Min Yuan, Woon-Puay Koh
Post-tuberculous fibrosing mediastinitis: a review of the literature (8 May, 2017)
Zhe Wu, Hannah Jarvis, Luke S Howard, Corrina Wright, Onn Min Kon
Evaluation of prediagnosis emergency department presentations in patients with active tuberculosis: the role of chest radiography, risk factors and symptoms (17 January, 2017)
S C Appleton, D W Connell, A Singanayagam, P Bradley, D Pan, F Sanderson, B Cleaver, A Rahman, O M Kon

Quality standards

British Thoracic Society quality standards for home oxygen use in adults (18 September, 2017)
Jay Suntharalingam, Tom Wilkinson, Joseph Annandale, Claire Davey, Rhea Fielding, Daryl Freeman, Michael Gibbons, Maxine Hardinge, Sabrine Hippolyte, Vikki Knowles, Cassandra Lee, William MacNee, Jacqueline Pollington, Vandana Vora, Trefor Watts, Meme Wijesinghe

Correction

Correction: Evaluation of the current landscape of respiratory nurse specialists in the UK: planning for the future needs of patients
(18 September, 2017)

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Table of contents

2017 - Volume 4 - 1

Sleep

Respiratory physiology

Cross sectional study or survey

Non-invasive ventilation

Reviewers

Pleural Disease

Paediatric lung disease

Interstitial lung disease

Pulmonary vasculature

Respiratory infection

Respiratory epidemiology

Cough

Respiratory research

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Cystic fibrosis

Guidelines

Lung cancer

Lung transplantation

Tuberculosis

Quality standards

Correction

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Table of contents

2017 - Volume 4 - 1

Sleep

Respiratory physiology

Cross sectional study or survey

Non-invasive ventilation

Reviewers

Pleural Disease

Paediatric lung disease

Interstitial lung disease

Pulmonary vasculature

Respiratory infection

Respiratory epidemiology

Cough

Respiratory research

Asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Critical care

Cystic fibrosis

Guidelines

Lung cancer

Lung transplantation

Tuberculosis

Quality standards

Correction