American Thoracic Society (ATS) Official Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) make recommendations for patient care that are informed by systematic reviews or pragmatic evidence syntheses and then formulated and graded using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach. The guidelines are compliant with the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) Standards for Trustworthy Guidelines.
All CPGs are developed in collaboration with ATS committees or assemblies; many are also developed with other professional medical societies. CPGs by the ATS are published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM) as an online full-length manuscript and a print executive summary. An online supplement typically accompanies the online manuscript. In addition, a clinical summary targeting clinicians is published in the Annals of ATS. CPGs co-sponsored by other professional medical societies may be published in those societies’ journals.
Guideline Implementation derivatives routinely produced by the ATS include:
- Complimentary Materials and other products
The CPGs and co-sponsors are listed by title and year published (in reverse chronological order) and are available via the following links:
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Adults with Chronic Respiratory Disease: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (an Update) and Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis in Adults: An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline (2022)
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis update, Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis in Adults (2022)
- Interpretive Strategies for Routine Lung Function Tests: ERS/ATS Technical Standard (2021)
- Outpatient Respiratory Management of Infants, Children, and Adolescents with Post-Prematurity Respiratory Disease: An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline (2021)
- Use of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide to Guide the Treatment of Asthma: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2021)
- Nucleic Acid-Based Testing for Noninfluenza Viral Pathogens in Adults with Suspected Community-acquired Pneumonia: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2021)
- Home Oxygen Therapy for Adults with Chronic Lung Disease: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2020)
- Long-Term Noninvasive Ventilation in Chronic Stable Hypercapnic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2020)
- Diagnosis of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis in Adults: An Official ATS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline (2020)
- Initiating Pharmacologic Treatment in Tobacco-Dependent Adults: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2020)
- Treatment of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: An Official ATS/ERS/ESCMID/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline (2020)
- Pharmacologic Management of COPD: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2020)
- Diagnosis and Detection of Sarcoidosis: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2020)
- Management of Severe Asthma: A ERS/ATS Guideline (2020)
- Treatment of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: An Official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline (2019)
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia: An Official ATS/IDSA Guideline (2019)
- Microbiological Laboratory Testing in the Diagnosis of Fungal Infections in Pulmonary and Critical Care Practice: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2019)
- Evaluation and Management of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2019)
- Home Oxygen Therapy for Children: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2019)
- Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions: An Official ATS/STS/STR Clinical Practice Guideline (2018)
- The Role of Weight Management in the Treatment of Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2018)
- Diagnosis of IPF: An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline (2018)
- Diagnosis of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2018)
- COPD Exacerbations: An Official ERS/ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2017)
- Noninvasive Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure: Official ERS/ATS Clinical Practice Guidelines (2017)
- Mechanical Ventilation in Adult Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: An Official ATS/ESICM/SCCM Clinical Practice Guideline (2017)
- Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Ill Adults: An Official ATS/ACCP Clinical Practice Guideline (2017)
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis Diagnosis and Management: An Official ATS/JRS Clinical Practice Guideline (2016/2017)
- Diagnostic Evaluation of Infants with Recurrent or Persistent Wheezing: Official ATS Clinical Practice Guidelines (2016)
- Pediatric Chronic Home Invasive Ventilation: An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline (2016)
For any questions, please contact Joseph Ruminjo, MD at jruminjo@thoracic.org.
