Credits
back to menu

Authors: Standards for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD
B.R. Celli; W. MacNee;   A. Anzueto; A. Agusti; W. Bailey; B. Berg; C. Bolliger; A.S. Buist; N.H. Chavannes; P. Calverley; R. Carter; T. Dillard; E.W. Ely; M. Estenne; A. Fein; M. Fiore; N. Gross; R. Grossman; J. Heffner; L. Hoffman; J.C. Hogg; R.M. Kotloff; S.C. Lareau; N.M. Lazar; J. Lynn; W. McNicholas; F.J. Martinez; M. Myramoto; J.W.M. Muris; J.B. Orens; R. Pauwels; J.J. Reilly; S. Rennard; R. Rodriguez-Roisin; A. Rossi; A.M.W.J. Schols; L. Sicilian; N. Siafakas; G.L. Snider; B.L. Tiep; J. van Noord; J. Vestbo; W. Weder; I.M. Weisman; M.E. Wewers; E.F.M. Wouters; R.D. Yusen; J. Zielinski; R. ZuWallack;

Authors: Patient Section
K. Busby, R. Andenæs, E. Austegard, B. Fahy, C. Hernandez, S.C. Lareau, P. Meek, S. Nicolaisen, A.A. Silverthorn, N.L. Specht, D. Upson, T. Weller, C. Werpy. In addition, patients from Loma Linda VA Hospital (Loma Linda, California, USA); St Joseph’s Hospital (Tucson, Arizona, USA); St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (Phoenix, Arizona, USA); patients from Tucson, Arizona, USA; patients of B Celli, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; patients of W. MacNee, Edinburgh, Scotland; as well as J. Walsh, President and CEO Alpha One Foundation, USA, reviewed this section.
Project sponsor
The translation of the original English patient section to German, French, Italian and Spanish has been made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim.
Design and editing:
Séverine Milon, Pascal Kurosinski , Tania Séverin, Pippa Powell , Elin Reeves , Jean-Luc Eiselé
Educational questions
Educational questions were developed by M. Roberts, J. Roca, C.G. Löfdahl and E.F.M. Wouters in the frame of the EU-funded project e-ProLearn – Contract number C27976
Software
Mind On Site, Web-based e-learning Platform www.mindonsite.com


Distribution of the ERS/ATS COPD Guidelines has been made possible with an unrestricted educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH