The ERS guidelines for the diagnosis of asthma in children aged 5-16 years
Guidelines sessionChairs: J. Grigg (London, United Kingdom), A. Möller (Zürich, Switzerland), C. Ardura-Garcia (Bern, Switzerland)
Aims: To present the results from the ERS task force for the development of European Respiratory Society guidelines for the diagnosis of asthma in children aged 5-16 years; to discuss the background, motivation and methodology of preparing these guidelines; to present the core recommendations and underscore them with some clinical cases; to provide a commentary from outside of the task force.