The need to research refractory breathlessness
David C. Currow, Amy P. Abernethy, Peter Allcroft, Robert B. Banzett, Claudia Bausewein, Sara Booth, Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman, Patricia Davidson, Rebecca Disler, DorAnne Donesky, Deborah Dudgeon, Magnus Ekstrom, Morag Farquhar, Irene Higginson, Daisy Janssen, Dennis Jensen, Caroline Jolley, Malgorzata Krajnik, Pierantonio Laveneziana, Christine McDonald, Matthew Maddocks, Capucine Morelot-Panzini, John Moxham, Richard A. Mularski, Simon Noble, Denis O'Donnell, Mark B. Parshall, Kyle Pattinson, Jane Phillips, Joy Ross, Richard M. Schwartzstein, Thomas Similowski, Steffen T. Simon, Tracy Smith, Athol Wells, Patsy Yates, Janelle Yorke, Miriam J. Johnson
European Respiratory Journal 2016 47: 342-343; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00653-2015
David C. Currow
1Dept of Flinders University, Palliative and Supportive Services, Bedford Park, Australia
Amy P. Abernethy
2Duke University Medical Center, Dept of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
Peter Allcroft
3Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park, Australia
Robert B. Banzett
4Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
5Harvard Medical School, Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Claudia Bausewein
6University Hospital of Munich, Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine, Munich, Germany
7King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Palliative Care and Older People, London, UK
Sara Booth
8Cambridge University Hospitals, Palliative Medicine, Cambridge, UK
Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman
9University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Patricia Davidson
10Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA
Rebecca Disler
11University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Health, Broadway, Australia
DorAnne Donesky
12University of California, Dept of Physiological Nursing, San Francisco, CA, USA
Deborah Dudgeon
13Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Magnus Ekstrom
14Department of Medicine, Blekinge Hospital, Karlskrona, Sweden
Morag Farquhar
15University of Cambridge, Public Health and Primary Care, GPPCRU Insititute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK
Irene Higginson
16Cicely Saunders Institute, Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, UK
Daisy Janssen
17CIRO+, Centre of Expertise for Chronic Organ Failure, Program Development Centre, Horn, The Netherlands
Dennis Jensen
18McGill University, Kinesiology and Physical Education, Montreal, QC, Canada
Caroline Jolley
19King's College London School of Medicine, King's Health Partners’ Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, Respiratory Medicine, London, UK
Malgorzata Krajnik
20Collegium Medicum of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Palliative Care, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Pierantonio Laveneziana
21Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière (AP-HP), Service d'Explorations Fonctionnelles de la Respiration, de l'Exercice et de la Dyspnée, Paris, France
22Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, INSERM UMR_S 1158, Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique – Faculté de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Christine McDonald
23Austin Hospital, Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Heidelberg, Australia
Matthew Maddocks
24King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Denmark Hill, London, UK
Capucine Morelot-Panzini
25Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France
John Moxham
26King's College London, London, UK
Richard A. Mularski
27Kaiser Permanente Northwest, The Center for Health Research, Portland, OR, USA
Simon Noble
28Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Denis O'Donnell
13Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Mark B. Parshall
29University of New Mexico, College of Nursing, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Kyle Pattinson
30Oxford University Hospitals, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Jane Phillips
31University of Technology, Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care, Sydney, Australia
Joy Ross
32Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK
Richard M. Schwartzstein
33Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, MA, USA
Thomas Similowski
25Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris, France
Steffen T. Simon
34University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Tracy Smith
35Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia
Athol Wells
36Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
Patsy Yates
37Queensland University of Technology, School of Nursing, Brisbane, Australia
Janelle Yorke
38University of Manchester, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, Manchester, UK
Miriam J. Johnson
39Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull, UK
Extract
The joint American Thoracic Society (ATS)/European Respiratory Society (ERS) statement “An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: research questions in COPD” by Celli et al. [1] is a timely summary of the current evidence and the questions that arise directly from where that evidence reaches its limits. Such documents are crucial in framing research strategies for researchers and research funders.
Abstract
High-quality research is needed to improve quality of life for people with chronic refractory breathlessness in COPD http://ow.ly/Q2GDY
Footnotes
Conflict of interest: Disclosures can be found alongside the online version of this article at erj.ersjournals.com
- Received April 27, 2015.
- Accepted May 15, 2015.
- Copyright ©ERS 2016
The need to research refractory breathlessness
David C. Currow, Amy P. Abernethy, Peter Allcroft, Robert B. Banzett, Claudia Bausewein, Sara Booth, Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman, Patricia Davidson, Rebecca Disler, DorAnne Donesky, Deborah Dudgeon, Magnus Ekstrom, Morag Farquhar, Irene Higginson, Daisy Janssen, Dennis Jensen, Caroline Jolley, Malgorzata Krajnik, Pierantonio Laveneziana, Christine McDonald, Matthew Maddocks, Capucine Morelot-Panzini, John Moxham, Richard A. Mularski, Simon Noble, Denis O'Donnell, Mark B. Parshall, Kyle Pattinson, Jane Phillips, Joy Ross, Richard M. Schwartzstein, Thomas Similowski, Steffen T. Simon, Tracy Smith, Athol Wells, Patsy Yates, Janelle Yorke, Miriam J. Johnson
European Respiratory Journal Jan 2016, 47 (1) 342-343; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00653-2015
The need to research refractory breathlessness
David C. Currow, Amy P. Abernethy, Peter Allcroft, Robert B. Banzett, Claudia Bausewein, Sara Booth, Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman, Patricia Davidson, Rebecca Disler, DorAnne Donesky, Deborah Dudgeon, Magnus Ekstrom, Morag Farquhar, Irene Higginson, Daisy Janssen, Dennis Jensen, Caroline Jolley, Malgorzata Krajnik, Pierantonio Laveneziana, Christine McDonald, Matthew Maddocks, Capucine Morelot-Panzini, John Moxham, Richard A. Mularski, Simon Noble, Denis O'Donnell, Mark B. Parshall, Kyle Pattinson, Jane Phillips, Joy Ross, Richard M. Schwartzstein, Thomas Similowski, Steffen T. Simon, Tracy Smith, Athol Wells, Patsy Yates, Janelle Yorke, Miriam J. Johnson
European Respiratory Journal Jan 2016, 47 (1) 342-343; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00653-2015