Taken to task: what is and is not an appropriate response to an ERS guidelines task force?

Affiliations

• ¹ Ghent University Hospital, Dept of Respiratory Diseases, Ghent, Belgium.
• ² National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK a.bush@imperial.ac.uk.
• ³ Otto Wagner Hospital Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁴ University Hospital of Coimbra, Dept of Pulmonology and Allergy, Coimbra, Portugal.
• ⁵ Athens Chest Hospital "Sotiria", 7th Respiratory Medicine Dept, Athens, Greece.
• ⁶ Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ⁷ Evgenidio Hospital, Smoking Cessation Centre, Pulmonary Dept, Athens University, Athens, Greece.
• ⁸ Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁹ Maastricht University Medical Center, Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ European Lung Foundation.
• ¹¹ University Hospital Basel, Pulmonary Care Division, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹² European Respiratory Society, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ¹³ University of Manchester, Centre for Respiratory Medicine and Allergy, UHSM, Manchester, UK.
• ¹⁴ University of Hannover, Pulmonary Medicine, Hannover, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Pneumology Dept, Barcelona, Spain.