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. 2020 Apr;7(1):e000489.
doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2019-000489.

British Thoracic Society guideline for the use of long-term macrolides in adults with respiratory disease

David Smith  1 , Ingrid A Du Rand  2 , Charlotte Addy  3 , Timothy Collyns  4 , Simon Hart  5 , Philip Mitchelmore  6 , Najib Rahman  7 , Ravijyot Saggu  8
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British Thoracic Society guideline for the use of long-term macrolides in adults with respiratory disease

David Smith et al. BMJ Open Respir Res. 2020 Apr.

Abstract

The full British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the use of long-term macrolides in adults with respiratory disease is published in Thorax. The following is a summary of the recommendations and good practice points. The sections referred to in the summary refer to the full guideline. The appendices are available in the full guideline and online appendices are available on the BTS website. This is the first BTS guideline to use the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) approach as part of the process of guideline development and the guideline was used to pilot the new methodology.

Keywords: respiratory infection.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: CA, TC, IDR, PM, DS and RS had no funding to declare. SH declared funding from Chiesi. NR declared funding from Rocket Medical, UK, Lung Therapeutics and BD.

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