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We wholly applaud the move by Johnson et al. [1] to improve awareness of breathlessness and to raise its profile as a subject for focussed clinical research. We consider their research and the ensuing proposal to recognise breathlessness via a new medical term, “chronic breathlessness syndrome”, as important and justified. We share their goal, which is to direct attention to this neglected, undertreated and under-researched symptom.
Abstract
People with breathlessness should be involved in renaming their condition as their experience can be influenced by clinical language http://ow.ly/ZKNj30hzUUM
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- Received November 12, 2017.
- Accepted November 23, 2017.
- Copyright ©ERS 2018
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