ATS Documents: Statements, Guidelines & Reports
To Access an ATS Document
ATS Statements, Guidelines and Reports are printed in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. These documents are also available in PDF format. You may download one copy of any ATS document; there is no charge for this service.
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- Contact the Publisher at permissionrequests@thoracic.org or Tel. 212/315-6440.
Questions?
Contact Judy Corn at jcorn@thoracic.org or Tel. 212/ 315-8694.
- Microbiology, Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Infections
- Update: Fatal and Severe Liver Injuries Associated With Rifampin and Pyrazinamide for Latent Tuberculosis Infection, and Revisions in American Thoracic Society/ CDC Recommendations—United States, 2001
- Recent Advances and Future Directions in Pneumocystis Pneumonia (PCP)
- Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia
- Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults
- Targeted Tuberculin Testing and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
- Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Hospital-acquired, Ventilator-associated, and Healthcare-associated Pneumonia
- An Official ATS Statement: Hepatotoxicity of Antituberculosis Therapy
- Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Tuberculosis
- Treatment of Tuberculosis
- ATS Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease Caused by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
- An Official ATS/IDSA Statement: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Diseases
- Treatment of Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis Infection in Adults and Children
- Pulmonary Function and Exercise Testing
- ATS/ACCP Statement on Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
- General considerations for lung function testing
- Standardisation of spirometry
- Standardization of the measurement of lung volumes
- Standardization of the single-breath determination of carbon monoxide uptake in the lung
- Interpretative strategies for lung function tests
- Guidelines for Methacholine and Exercise Challenge Testing-1999
- ATS Statement: Guidelines for the Six-Minute Walk Test
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- Respiratory Health Hazards in Agriculture
- What Constitutes an Adverse Health Effect of Air Pollution?
- The Report on the ATS Workshop on the Health Effects of Atmospheric Acids and Their Precursors
- Adverse Effects of Crystalline Silica Exposure
- Diagnosis and Initial Management of Nonmalignant Diseases Related to Asbestos
- Guidelines for Assessing and Managing Asthma Risk at Work, School, and Recreation
- Asthma in the Workplace
- Occupational Contribution to the Burden of Airway Disease
- American Thoracic Society Workshop Achieving Healthy Indoor Air
- Workshop on Lung Disease and the Environment
- Proceedings of the First Jack Pepys Occupational Asthma Symposium
- Respiratory Protection Guidelines
- Respiratory Disease: Adults
- International Consensus Conferences in Intensive Care Medicine: Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure
- Executive Summary: Management of the Critically Ill Patient with Severe Acute Pancreatitis
- Sleep Apnea, Sleepiness, and Driving Risk
- ATS Workshop Proceedings: Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Nitric Oxide Oxidative Metabolism in Exhaled Breath Condensate
- Outcomes for COPD pharmacological trials: from lung function to biomarkers
- American Thoracic Society Statement on Research Priorities in Respiratory Nursing
- Progress at the InterFace of Inflammation and Asthma
- Immunobiology of Asthma and Rhinitis
- Management of Malignant Pleural Effusions
- International Consensus Conferences in Intensive Care Medicine: Ventilator-associated Lung Injury in ARDS
- Acute Lung Injury
- American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Standards for the Diagnosis and Management of Individuals with Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
- ATS Workshop Proceedings: Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Nitric Oxide Oxidative Metabolism in Exhaled Breath Condensate
- The Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Critically Ill Patients in the United States and Canada
- Curriculum and Competency Assessment Tools for Sleep Disorders in Pulmonary Fellowship Training Programs
- ERS/ATS statement on interventional pulmonology
- Ventilator-y, Pharmacologic, Supportive Therapy, Study Design Strategies, and Issues Related to Recovery and Remodeling
- An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Asthma Control and Exacerbations
- ATS/ERS Statement on Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Pretreatment Evaluation of Non-Small-cell Lung Cancer
- Evidence-based Colloid Use in the Critically Ill
- Standards for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD: a summary of the ATS/ERS position paper
- COPD Guidelines
- Understanding Costs and Cost-Effectiveness in Critical Care
- Fair Allocation of Intensive Care Unit Resources
- American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Consensus Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Diagnosis and Treatment
- International Guidelines for the Selection of Lung Transplant Candidates
- Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
- Update: Future Directions for Research on Diseases of the Lung
- Statement on Home Care for Patients with Respiratory Disorders
- Outcomes Research in Critical Care
- An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Policy Statement: Palliative Care for Patients with Respiratory Diseases and Critical Illnesses
- Proceedings of the ATS Workshop on Refractory Asthma
- ATS/ERS Statement on Respiratory Muscle Testing
- Statement on Sarcoidosis
- ATS/ERS Recommendations for Standardized Procedures for the Online and Offline Measurement of Exhaled Lower Respiratory Nitric Oxide and Nasal Nitric Oxide, 2005
- Executive Summary on the Systematic Review and Practice Parameters for Portable Monitoring in the Investigation of Suspected Sleep Apnea in Adults
- Statement on Health Outcomes Research in Sleep Apnea
- ATS / ASDA / ACCP / APCCMPD Statement About Training of Pulmonary Physicians in Sleep Disorders
- An Official American Thoracic Society Statement: Position Statement on ATS Activities for the Promotion of Respiratory and Sleep/Wake Health and the Care of the Critically Ill in the United States
- An Official ATS Conference Proceedings: Advances in Small-Animal Imaging Application to Lung Pathophysiology
- Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction in COPD
- Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
- Tissue Dypoxia
- The Diagnostic Approach to Acute Venous Thromboembolism
- Respiratory Disease: Pediatric
- Respiratory Mechanics in infants: Physiologic Evaluation in Health and Disease
- Respiratory Function Measurements in infants Measurement Conditions
- Respiratory Function Measurements in infants: Symbols, Abbreviations, and Units
- Flexible Endoscopy of the Pediatric Airway
- ATS Consensus Statement: Research Opportunities and Challenges in Pediatric Pulmonology
- ATS/ERS Statement: Raised Volume Forced Expirations in Infants
- Cardiorespiratory Sleep Studies in Children
- Respiratory Care of the Patient with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Standards and Indications for Cardiopulmlon'-ry Slleep Studies in Children
- Statement on the Care of the Child with Chronic Lung Disease of Infancy and Childhood
- Care of the Child with a Chronic Tracheostomy
- Idiopathic Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome
- Mechanisms and Limits of Induced Postnatal Lung Growth
- An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Pulmonary Function Testing in Preschool Children
- The Raised Volume Rapid Thoracoabdominal Compression Technique
- An Official ATS Workshop Report: Issues in Screening for Asthma in Children
- Other Interests
- Managing Conflict of Interest in Professional Societies
- An Official ATS Statement: Grading the Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations in ATS Guidelines and Recommendations
- Attributes of ATS Documents That Guide Clinical Practice
- A Framework for Health Care Policy in the United States
- Role of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Physician in the American Health Care System
- Witholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy
- Archived ATS Documents
- Standardization of Spirometry
- Singlebreath Carbon Monoxide Diffusing Capacity (Transfer Factor) Recommendations for a
- Clinical Role of Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Adults with Pulmonary Disease
- Indications and Standads for Use of Nasal Continuous Positive Aimay Pressure (CPAP) in Sleep Apnea Syndromes
- Home Mechanical Ventilation of Pediatric Patients
- Standards of Nursing Care for Adult Patients with Pulmonary Dysfunction
- Research Priorities in Respiratory Nursing
- Recommendations for Standardized Procedures for the Online and Offline Measurement of Exhaled Lower Respiratory Nitric Oxide and Nasal Nitric Oxide in Adults and Children—1999
- Animals in Medical Research
- Report of the ATS Workshop an Environmental Controls and Lung Disease
- Guidelines for the Evaluation of I mpairment/Disa bi1-Q in Patients with Asthma
- Cigarette Smoking and Health - 1985
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation—1999
- Cigarette Smoking and Health - 1996
- Control of Tuberculosis in the United States
- Dyspnea
- Asthma and Rhinitis
- Hospital-acquired Pneumonia in Adults: Diagnosis, Assessment of Severity, Initial Antimicrobial Therapy, and Preventative Strategies
- Institutional Control Measures for Tuberculosis in the Era of Multiple Drug Resistance
- Indications and Standards for Cardiopulmonary Sleep Studies
- Lung Function Testing: Selection of Reference Values and Interpretative Strategies
- Lung Transplantation
- Future Directions for Research on Diseases of the Lung
- Finding Genetic Mechanisms in Syndromes of Sleep Disordered Breathing
- Fungal Infection in HIV-infected Persons
- Guidelines for the Approach to the Patient with Severe Hereditary Alpha-1-Anyitrypsin Deficiency
- Guidelines for the Initial Management of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia: diagnosis, Assessment of Severity, and Initial Antimicrobial Therapy
- Guidelines for Percutaneous Transthoracic Needle Biopsy
- Health Effects of Smoking on Children
- Research Priorities in Respiratory Nursing
- Recommended Respiratory Disease Questionnaires for Use with Adults and Children in Epidemiological Research
- Marijuana and the Lungs
- Measurement of exhaled nitric oxide in children, 2001
- The Diagnosis of Nonmalignant Diseases Related to Asbestos
- Standards of Nursing Care for Adult Patients with Pulmonary Dysfunction
- Screening for Adult Respiratory Disease
- Skills of the Health Team involved in Out-of-Hospital Care for Patients with COPD
- Diagnostic Standards and Classification of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children
- Health Effects of Tremolite
- Standards for the Diagnosis and Care of Patients with COPD
- standards-for-copd-asthma-patients.pdf
- Standards for the Diagnosis and Care of COPD and Asthma Patients
