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Comment
. 2022 Mar;18(1):210148.
doi: 10.1183/20734735.0148-2021. Epub 2021 Mar 8.

Challenging the paradigm

Mark L Everard  1
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Comment

Challenging the paradigm

Mark L Everard. Breathe (Sheff). 2022 Mar.

Abstract

While advocating for addressing "treatable traits" is admirable in that it reminds clinicians to consider the patient and not the disease, the use of this idea to promote dangerous changes in practice should be challenged. https://bit.ly/30VkP8Q.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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