BMJ Open Respiratory Research: 5 (1)

Editorial

Thoracic ultrasound: it’s not all about the pleura (1 October, 2018)
Andrew Walden, Nicholas Smallwood, Martin Dachsel, Ashley Miller, Jennifer Stephens, Michael Griksaitis

Asthma

Novel pharmacist-led intervention secures the minimally important difference (MID) in Asthma Control Test (ACT) score: better outcomes for patients and the healthcare provider (14 October, 2018)
Michela Tinelli, John White, Andrea Manfrin
Gut microbiota relationships to lung function and adult asthma phenotype: a pilot study (23 September, 2018)
Lesa Begley, Siddharth Madapoosi, Kristopher Opron, Ogechukwu Ndum, Alan Baptist, Kelly Rysso, John R Erb-Downward, Yvonne Jean Huang
Chlamydia pneumoniae-induced tumour necrosis factor alpha responses are lower in children with asthma compared with non-asthma
(5 May, 2018)
Tamar Anne Smith-Norowitz, Kobkul Chotikanatis, Diana Weaver, Jared Ditkowsky, Yitzchok Meir Norowitz, Margaret R Hammerschlag, Rauno Joks, Stephan Kohlhoff

Biomarkers of disease

Metabolomics of World Trade Center-Lung Injury: a machine learning approach (3 September, 2018)
George Crowley, Sophia Kwon, Syed Hissam Haider, Erin J Caraher, Rachel Lam, David E St-Jules, Mengling Liu, David J Prezant, Anna Nolan

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Visual rating assessment of cerebral atrophy and its relationship with cognitive function in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (26 November, 2018)
Charlotte Claire Savage, Piers Henry Anderson Dixey, Catherine Pennington, James W Dodd
Study investigating the generalisability of a COPD trial based in primary care (Salford Lung Study) and the presence of a Hawthorne effect (25 October, 2018)
Alexander Pate, Michael Barrowman, David Webb, Jeanne M Pimenta, Kourtney J Davis, Rachael Williams, Tjeerd Van Staa, Matthew Sperrin
Specialist emergency care and COPD outcomes (14 October, 2018)
Nicholas David Lane, Karen Brewin, Tom Murray Hartley, William Keith Gray, Mark Burgess, John Steer, Stephen C Bourke
Comparison of patient-reported outcomes during acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (9 October, 2018)
Koichi Nishimura, Saya Nakamura, Masaaki Kusunose, Kazuhito Nakayasu, Ryo Sanda, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Toru Oga
Reducing hospital admissions for COPD: perspectives following the Christchurch Earthquake (2 August, 2018)
Michael Epton, Carol Limber, Carolyn Gullery, Graham McGeoch, Brett Shand, Rose Laing, Simon Brokenshire, Andrew Meads, Rachel Nicholson-Hitt
Validation of the Saint George’s Respiratory Questionnaire in Uganda (11 July, 2018)
Brooks W Morgan, Matthew R Grigsby, Trishul Siddharthan, Robert Kalyesubula, Robert A Wise, John R Hurst, Bruce Kirenga, William Checkley
No association between DNA methylation and COPD in never and current smokers (29 June, 2018)
Maaike de Vries, Diana A van der Plaat, Judith M Vonk, H Marike Boezen
Risk and temporal order of disease diagnosis of comorbidities in patients with COPD: a population health perspective (13 June, 2018)
Ákos Tényi, Emili Vela, Isaac Cano, Montserrat Cleries, David Monterde, David Gomez-Cabrero, Josep Roca
Lung volumes identify an at-risk group in persons with prolonged secondhand tobacco smoke exposure but without overt airflow obstruction (5 May, 2018)
Mehrdad Arjomandi, Siyang Zeng, Jeroen Geerts, Rachel K Stiner, Bruce Bos, Ian van Koeverden, Jason Keene, Brett Elicker, Paul D Blanc, Warren M Gold
Development of a patient-centred, evidence-based and consensus-based discharge care bundle for patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (30 January, 2018)
Maria B Ospina, Marta Michas, Lesly Deuchar, Richard Leigh, Mohit Bhutani, Brian H Rowe, Darcy Marciniuk, Donna Goodridge, Gail Dechman, Jean Bourbeau, Meyer Balter, Pat Camp, Paul Hernandez, Roger S Goldstein, Michael K Stickland
Reasons for Accident and Emergency department attendance by people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or heart failure: recipients and providers’ perspectives. An exploratory study (24 January, 2018)
Jeong Su Lee, Heidi Lempp, Vivek Srivastava, Elizabeth Barley
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associated with biomass fuel use in women: a systematic review and meta-analysis (12 January, 2018)
Adama Sana, Serge M A Somda, Nicolas Meda, Catherine Bouland

Guidelines

British Thoracic Society guideline for bronchiectasis in adults (28 December, 2018)
Adam T Hill, Anita L Sullivan, James D Chalmers, Anthony De Soyza, J Stuart Elborn, R Andres Floto, Lizzie Grillo, Kevin Gruffydd-Jones, Alex Harvey, Charles S Haworth, Edwin Hiscocks, John R Hurst, Christopher Johnson, W Peter Kelleher, Pallavi Bedi, Karen Payne, Hesham Saleh, NIcholas J Screaton, Maeve Smith, Michael Tunney, Deborah Whitters, Robert Wilson, Michael R Loebinger
British Thoracic Society Guideline for the initial outpatient management of pulmonary embolism (13 June, 2018)
Luke S Howard, Steven Barden, Robin Condliffe, Vincent Connolly, Chris Davies, James Donaldson, Bernard Everett, Catherine Free, Daniel Horner, Laura Hunter, Jasvinder Kaler, Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Emma O’Dowd, Raj Patel, Wendy Preston, Karen Sheares, Campbell Tait
BTS guideline for the investigation and management of malignant pleural mesothelioma (14 February, 2018)
Ian Woolhouse, Lesley Bishop, Liz Darlison, Duneesha de Fonseka, Anthony Edey, John Edwards, Corinne Faivre-Finn, Dean A Fennell, Steve Holmes, Keith M Kerr, Apostolos Nakas, Tim Peel, Najib M Rahman, Mark Slade, Jeremy Steele, Selina Tsim, Nick A Maskell

Interstitial lung disease

Specialist palliative care, psychology, interstitial lung disease (ILD) multidisciplinary team meeting: a novel model to address palliative care needs (19 December, 2018)
Shaney L Barratt, Michelle Morales, Toby Speirs, Khaled Al Jboor, Heather Lamb, Sarah Mulholland, Adrienne Edwards, Rachel Gunary, Patricia Meek, Nikki Jordan, Charles Sharp, Clare Kendall, Huzaifa I Adamali
Baseline clinical characteristics, comorbidities and prescribed medication in a real-world population of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: the PROOF registry (21 November, 2018)
Wim A Wuyts, Caroline Dahlqvist, Hans Slabbynck, Marc Schlesser, Natacha Gusbin, Christophe Compere, Sofie Maddens, Klaus-Uwe Kirchgaessler, Karen Bartley, Benjamin Bondue
Acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a 10-year single-centre retrospective study (9 October, 2018)
Masatoshi Yamazoe, Hiromi Tomioka
Pirfenidone in patients with unclassifiable progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease: design of a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase II trial (4 September, 2018)
Toby M Maher, Tamera J Corte, Aryeh Fischer, Michael Kreuter, David J Lederer, Maria Molina-Molina, Judit Axmann, Klaus-Uwe Kirchgaessler, Vincent Cottin
Investigating the effects of nintedanib on biomarkers of extracellular matrix turnover in patients with IPF: design of the randomised placebo-controlled INMARK®trial (20 August, 2018)
Toby M Maher, Susanne Stowasser, Yasuhiko Nishioka, Eric S White, Vincent Cottin, Imre Noth, Moisés Selman, Zuzana Blahova, Daniel Wachtlin, Claudia Diefenbach, R Gisli Jenkins
Dose modification and dose intensity during treatment with pirfenidone: analysis of pooled data from three multinational phase III trials (2 August, 2018)
Steven D Nathan, Lisa H Lancaster, Carlo Albera, Marilyn K Glassberg, Jeffrey J Swigris, Frank Gilberg, Klaus-Uwe Kirchgaessler, Susan L Limb, Ute Petzinger, Paul W Noble
Psychometric properties of the St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: insights from the INPULSIS trials (18 May, 2018)
Jeffrey J Swigris, Hilary Wilson, Dirk Esser, Craig S Conoscenti, Wibke Stansen, Nancy Kline Leidy, Kevin K Brown
Randomised clinical trial of an early palliative care intervention (SUPPORT) for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and their caregivers: protocol and key design considerations (19 February, 2018)
Kathleen Oare Lindell, Mehdi Nouraie, Melinda J Klesen, Sara Klein, Kevin F Gibson, Daniel J Kass, Margaret Quinn Rosenzweig

Lung cancer

Initial experience with transbronchial cryoablation as a novel local treatment for malignant peripheral lung lesions (15 December, 2018)
Mitsutomo Kohno, Ryo Hashimoto, Kana Oiwa, Hideki Yashiro, Seishi Nakatsuka, Masafumi Kawamura, Masayuki Iwazaki
Image enhancement technology in bronchoscopy: a prospective multicentre study in lung cancer (18 May, 2018)
Erik H F M van der Heijden, Piero Candoli, Igor Vasilev, Alessandro Messi, Javier Pérez Pallarés, Piotr Yablonskii, Anna van der Vorm, Olga C J Schuurbiers, Wouter Hoefsloot

Non-invasive ventilation

To intubate or not: ventilation is the question. A manikin-based observational study (17 July, 2018)
Fatimata Seydou Sall, Alban De Luca, Lionel Pazart, Aurore Pugin, Gilles Capellier, Abdo Khoury
Using domiciliary non-invasive ventilator data downloads to inform clinical decision-making to optimise ventilation delivery and patient compliance (3 March, 2018)
Stephanie K Mansell, Steven Cutts, Isobel Hackney, Martin J Wood, Kevin Hawksworth, Dean D Creer, Cherry Kilbride, Swapna Mandal

Orphan lung disease

Pulmonary involvement in Fabry disease: effect of plasma globotriaosylsphingosine and time to initiation of enzyme replacement therapy (21 April, 2018)
Daniel Franzen, Sarah R Haile, David C Kasper, Thomas P Mechtler, Andreas J Flammer, Pierre A Krayenbühl, Albina Nowak

Paediatric lung disease

Effect of idiopathic thoracic scoliosis on the tracheobronchial tree (25 March, 2018)
James Farrell, Enrique Garrido

Pleural Disease

Ensuring basic competency in chest tube insertion using a simulated scenario: an international validation study (10 December, 2018)
Peter Hertz, Katrine Jensen, Saleh N Abudaff, Michael Strøm, Yousif Subhi, Hani Lababidi, Lars Konge
Providing safe and effective pleural medicine services in the UK: an aspirational statement from UK pleural physicians (3 August, 2018)
Matthew Evison, Kevin G Blyth, Rahul Bhatnagar, John Corcoran, Tarek Saba, Tracy Duncan, Rob Hallifax, Liju Ahmed, Alex West, Justin Charles Thane Pepperell, Mark Roberts, Pasupathy Sivasothy, Ioannis Psallidas, Amelia O Clive, Jennifer Latham, Andrew E Stanton, Nick Maskell, Najib Rahman
Pre-EDIT: protocol for a randomised feasibility trial of elastance-directed intrapleural catheter or talc pleurodesis (EDIT) in malignant pleural effusion (29 May, 2018)
Geoffrey A Martin, Selina Tsim, Andrew C Kidd, John E Foster, Philip McLoone, Anthony Chalmers, Kevin G Blyth
Randomised controlled trial to compare the diagnostic yield of positron emission tomography CT (PET-CT) TARGETed pleural biopsy versus CT-guided pleural biopsy in suspected pleural malignancy (TARGET trial) (19 February, 2018)
Duneesha de Fonseka, Wendy Underwood, Louise Stadon, Najib Rahman, Anthony Edey, Chris Rogers, Nick A Maskell
Survival prediction in mesothelioma using a scalable Lasso regression model: instructions for use and initial performance using clinical predictors (30 January, 2018)
Andrew C Kidd, Michael McGettrick, Selina Tsim, Daniel L Halligan, Max Bylesjo, Kevin G Blyth

Pulmonary vasculature

Fever is associated with higher morbidity and clot burden in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (23 September, 2018)
Muhammad Saad, Danial H Shaikh, Nikhitha Mantri, Ahmed Alemam, Aiyi Zhang, Muhammad Adrish
Symptom severity and its effect on health-related quality of life over time in patients with pulmonary hypertension: a multisite longitudinal cohort study (1 March, 2018)
Janelle Yorke, Christi Deaton, Malcolm Campbell, Linda McGowen, Paul Sephton, David G Kiely, Iain Armstrong

Perspectives

Transitions and touchpoints in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (29 June, 2018)
Jeffrey J Swigris

Quality Standards

British Thoracic Society quality standards for the investigation and management of pulmonary nodules (16 April, 2018)
David Baldwin, Matthew Callister, Ahsan Akram, Paul Cane, Jeanette Draffan, Kevin Franks, Fergus Gleeson, Richard Graham, Puneet Malhotra, Philip Pearson, Manil Subesinghe, David Waller, Ian Woolhouse
British Thoracic Society Quality Standards for acute non-invasive ventilation in adults (5 April, 2018)
Michael Davies, Martin Allen, Andrew Bentley, Stephen C Bourke, Ben Creagh-Brown, Rachel D’Oliveiro, Alastair Glossop, Alasdair Gray, Phillip Jacobs, Ravi Mahadeva, Rachael Moses, Ian Setchfield

Respiratory infection

Multicentre pilot study evaluation of lung ultrasound for the management of paediatric pneumonia in low-resource settings: a study protocol (19 December, 2018)
Jennifer L Lenahan, Giovanni Volpicelli, Alessandro Lamorte, Fyezah Jehan, Quique Bassat, Amy Sarah Ginsburg
Face mask sampling reveals antimicrobial resistance genes in exhaled aerosols from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and healthy volunteers (23 September, 2018)
Matthew Kennedy, Mohammadali Y Ramsheh, Caroline M L Williams, Joss Auty, Koirobi Haldar, Mohamad Abdulwhhab, Christopher E Brightling, Michael R Barer
Impact of the introduction of a universal childhood influenza vaccination programme on influenza-related admissions to paediatric intensive care units in England (9 June, 2018)
Pia Hardelid, Melpo Kapetanstrataki, Lee Norman, Sarah J Fleming, Paula Lister, Ruth Gilbert, Roger C Parslow

Respiratory epidemiology

Temporal analysis of determinants for respiratory emergency department visits in a large German hospital (1 November, 2018)
Anne Caroline Krefis, Jana Fischereit, Peter Hoffmann, Hans Pinnschmidt, Christina Sorbe, Matthias Augustin, Jobst Augustin
Maternal iron status during pregnancy and respiratory and atopic outcomes in the offspring: a Mendelian randomisation study (30 March, 2018)
Annabelle Bédard, Sarah J Lewis, Stephen Burgess, A John Henderson, Seif O Shaheen
Is childhood wheeze and asthma in Latin America associated with poor hygiene and infection? A systematic review (22 February, 2018)
Cristina Ardura-Garcia, Paul Garner, Philip J Cooper
Patterns and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in urban and rural China: a community-based survey of 25 000 adults across 10 regions (19 February, 2018)
Om P Kurmi, Kourtney J Davis, Kin Bong Hubert Lam, Yu Guo, Julien Vaucher, Derrick Bennett, Jenny Wang, Zheng Bian, Huaidong Du, Liming Li, Robert Clarke, Zhengming Chen
Childhood asthma prevalence: cross-sectional record linkage study comparing parent-reported wheeze with general practitioner-recorded asthma diagnoses from primary care electronic health records in Wales (8 January, 2018)
Lucy J Griffiths, Ronan A Lyons, Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Karen S Tingay, Suzanne Walton, Mario Cortina-Borja, Ashley Akbari, Helen Bedford, Carol Dezateux

Tuberculosis

Monitoring tuberculosis contact tracing outcomes in Western Sydney, Australia (25 October, 2018)
Laila Parvaresh, Shopna K Bag, Jin-Gun Cho, Neil Heron, Hassan Assareh, Sophie Norton, Stephen Corbett, Ben J Marais
Incidence of tuberculosis and the influence of surveillance strategy on tuberculosis case-finding and all-cause mortality: a cluster randomised trial in Indian neonates vaccinated with BCG (9 October, 2018)
Synne Jenum, Sumithra Selvam, Nelson Jesuraj, Christian Ritz, Anneke C Hesseling, Vicky Cardenas, Esther Lau, T Mark Doherty, Harleen M S Grewal, Mario Vaz
Initiation, scale-up and outcomes of the Cambodian National MDR-TB programme 2006–2016: hospital and community-based treatment through an NGO–NTP partnership (4 June, 2018)
Sophan Sam, Adrienne E Shapiro, Thim Sok, Sokhan Khann, Rassi So, Sopheap Khem, Sokhem Chhun, Sarith Noun, Bonamy Koy, Prum Chhom Sayouen, Chun Im Sin, Heng Bunsieth, Tan Eang Mao, Anne E Goldfeld

Respiratory physiology

Inconsistent calculation methodology for the eucapnic voluntary hyperpnoea test affects the diagnosis of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (18 December, 2018)
Sarah Koch, Sean Michael Sinden, Michael Stephen Koehle
Step oximetry test: a validation study (3 August, 2018)
Benjamin Daniel Fox, Nadav Sheffy, Baruch Vainshelboim, Leonardo Fuks, Mordechai R Kramer

Respiratory research

Understanding changes in dyspnoea perception in obstructive lung disease after mindfulness training (23 June, 2018)
Alice Malpass, Gene Feder, James W Dodd

Correction

Correction: Metabolomics of World Trade Center-Lung Injury: a machine learning approach
(19 December, 2018)
Correction: Understanding changes in dyspnoea perception in obstructive lung disease after mindfulness training
(20 August, 2018)
Correction: Differentiation of quantitative CT imaging phenotypes in asthma versus COPD
(6 March, 2018)

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Table of contents

2018 - Volume 5 - 1

Editorial

Asthma

Biomarkers of disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Guidelines

Interstitial lung disease

Lung cancer

Non-invasive ventilation

Orphan lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Pleural Disease

Pulmonary vasculature

Perspectives

Quality Standards

Respiratory infection

Respiratory epidemiology

Tuberculosis

Respiratory physiology

Respiratory research

Correction

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Table of contents

2018 - Volume 5 - 1

Editorial

Asthma

Biomarkers of disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Guidelines

Interstitial lung disease

Lung cancer

Non-invasive ventilation

Orphan lung disease

Paediatric lung disease

Pleural Disease

Pulmonary vasculature

Perspectives

Quality Standards

Respiratory infection

Respiratory epidemiology

Tuberculosis

Respiratory physiology

Respiratory research

Correction