Standards for the diagnosis and care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. This official statement of the American Thoracic Society was adopted by the ATS Board of Directors, November 1986.
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Summary
A Task Group appointed by the Scientific Assemble of Clinical Problems of the American Thoracic Society to accomplish this task defined the entities and set forth recommendations for diagnosis, hospital admission, and discharge and critically review the various facets of therapy.
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Medicine, COPD, Asthma, Population, Intensive care medicine
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