• DOI:10.1378/chest.09-1543
Corpus ID: 26739450

American College of Chest Physicians consensus statement on the management of dyspnea in patients with advanced lung or heart disease.

@article{Mahler2010AmericanCO,
  title={American College of Chest Physicians consensus statement on the management of dyspnea in patients with advanced lung or heart disease.},
  author={Donald A. Mahler and Paul A. Selecky and Christopher G Harrod and Joshua O. Benditt and Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman and J. Randall Curtis and Harold L. Manning and Richard A Mularski and Basil Varkey and Margaret L Campbell and Edward R. Carter and Jun R. Chiong and E. Wesley Ely and John Hansen-Flaschen and Denis E O'Donnell and Alexander J. Waller},
  journal={Chest},
  year={2010},
  volume={137 3},
  pages={
          674-91
        }
}

Donald A. Mahler, Paul A. Selecky, +13 authors Alexander J. Waller

Published in Chest 2010

Medicine

BACKGROUND This consensus statement was developed based on the understanding that patients with advanced lung or heart disease are not being treated consistently and effectively for relief of dyspnea. METHODS A panel of experts was convened. After a literature review, the panel developed 23 statements covering five domains that were considered relevant to the topic condition. Endorsement of these statements was assessed by levels of agreement or disagreement on a five-point Likert scale using… CONTINUE READING

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