PG13 ERS/ACCP jointly organised: evidence-based approach to advanced respiratory care

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: N. Siafakas (Heraklion, Greece), A. Sharafkhaneh (Houston, United States of America)
Aims: To understand the process by which evidence-based guidelines are developed and implemented into practice; to gain practical knowledge for using an evidence-based approach in managing the solitary pulmonary nodule; to learn to apply clinical evidence derived by clinical trials and the experience of real life already present in literature in treating severe asthma and pulmonary hypertension.

HERMES syllabus links: F.5 Audit/quality assurance of clinical practice, I.3. Evidence-based medicine, B.1.1 Asthma, B.5 Pulmonary vascular diseases

Type of course: Case, lecture and problem based

State-of-the-art: development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines D. Gutterman (Milwaukee, United States of America)
An evidence-based algorithmic approach to the solitary pulmonary nodule S. Raoof (Brooklyn, United States of America)
Evidence-based treatments for severe asthma P. Chanez (Marseille, France)