TY - JOUR T1 - Taken to task: what is and is not an appropriate response to an ERS guidelines task force? JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.00952-2017 VL - 50 IS - 1 SP - 1700952 AU - Guy Joos AU - Andrew Bush AU - Otto Chris Burghuber AU - Carlos Robalo Cordeiro AU - Mina Gaga AU - G. John Gibson AU - Christina Gratziou AU - David Rigau AU - Gernot Rohde AU - Dan Smyth AU - Daiana Stolz AU - Thomy Tonia AU - Jørgen Vestbo AU - Tobias Welte AU - Guy Brusselle AU - Marc Miravitlles Y1 - 2017/07/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/50/1/1700952.abstract N2 - The European Respiratory Society (ERS) management group have discussed the worrying recent trend for outside interference by a small number of pharmaceutical and other companies in the Society's processes for generating, publishing, disseminating and/or implementing clinical practice guidelines. Recently, some companies have targeted their unwanted attentions very aggressively on particular individuals who are chairs or members of task forces developing guidelines. This is unacceptable, and the purpose of this manuscript is to remind all concerned of our guideline procedures, the proper way of responding and expressing comments, and how the Society will regard any future attempts to manipulate outcomes.Task forces use rigorous methodology, and the ERS will not tolerate interference with the processes by outsiders http://ow.ly/WwIe30cyhDOThe authors acknowledge the members of the ERS Guidelines Working Group for their contribution to facilitate the development of clinical practice guidelines within ERS and for reviewing the current document. ER -