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British Asthma Guidelines Are 21 Years Old This Month - And Still Going Strong

First published in the BMJ in 1990, British asthma guidelines are as relevant now as they were then. Anne Boyter looks at the guidelines’ past, present and future.

It seems hard to believe that the asthma guidelines first produced by the British Thoracic Society (BTS) are 21 years old. The first guideline was published in September 1990 in the British Medical Journal,1,2 and consisted of two papers totalling just over six pages with four references, one of which was in the guideline for acute management referring back to the chronic management paper. How things have changed.

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Extract taken from PJ Online