TY - JOUR T1 - The International Collaborative Effusion (ICE) database: an ERS Clinical Research Collaboration JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.00591-2019 VL - 53 IS - 5 SP - 1900591 AU - Rahul Bhatnagar AU - Julius Janssen AU - Nick Maskell Y1 - 2019/05/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/53/5/1900591.abstract N2 - Pleural medicine is now well-established as an important subspecialty of respiratory medicine, with pleural effusions alone estimated to affect over 2 million people per year in Europe [1]. The range of pleural conditions is broad, encompassing those which are malignant or benign; treatable and requiring palliation; and acute or chronic. Interventions such as thoracoscopy and indwelling pleural catheters play a key role in the pleural specialist's arsenal, as does the increasingly ubiquitous thoracic ultrasound. Indeed, technological improvements have not only fuelled the ultrasound revolution but have also led to developments in other forms of diagnostic imaging and testing specifically geared towards the patient with a pleural condition [2].The ICE database project is a new ERS Clinical Research Collaboration aiming to establish and improve multinational projects in pleural disease http://bit.ly/2G4FvgOThe authors would like to thank the following for their contribution to the ICE database so far: Marios Froudrakis, Stavros Anevlavis (Alexandropoulos, Greece); Ales Rozman (Golnik, Slovenia); Arnaud Scherpereel (Lille, France); Charles Marquette (Nice, France); Philippe Astoul (Marseille, France); Jose Porcel (Lleida, Spain); Uffe Bodtger (Naestved, Denmark); Najib Rahman (Oxford, UK); John Corcoran (Plymouth, UK); Mohammed Munavvar (Preston, UK); Steven Walker, Alison Horne (Bristol, UK); Coenraad Koegelenberg, Jane Shaw (Cape Town, South Africa); Peter Driesen (Turnhout, Belgium); Magdalena Grabczak, Piotr Korczynski, Rafal Krenke (Warsaw, Poland). ER -