Clinicians have proposed a system-wide response plan for the delivery of high-quality palliative care across a continuum of conventional, contingency, and crisis capacity scenarios during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite significant advances in asthma treatment in the past decades, the disease is still poorly controlled in an estimated 50% of patients.
Physicians and hospitals have urged the public to seek immediate medical care when needed, with reassurance regarding sound infection control practices that hospitals have implemented in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Specialists emphasized that although shared ventilation may be necessary in times of crisis, innovative alternatives should be used to avoid such extreme measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a general population of patients with latent TB infection (including patients with and without HIV), studies have confirmed the superior safety profile of treatment with rifampicin vs isoniazid.
Pulmonary rehabilitation programs represent a key component in the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Shared decision making has been linked to improvements in asthma control, lung function, treatment adherence, and quality of life.
Patients with asthma who underwent exercise training have shown improvements in symptoms, pulmonary function, exercise capacity, and quality of life.
An increasing body of subsequent research has challenged the usefulness of the healthcare-associated pneumonia label, including studies that have cast doubt on links between multidrug-resistant pathogens and increased mortality.
Black patients appear to have a higher risk for exacerbation-prone asthma.
