Executive summary: prevention of acute exacerbation of COPD: American College of Chest Physicians and Canadian Thoracic Society Guideline

Affiliations

• ¹ Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address: gerard.criner@tuhs.temple.edu.
• ² Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
• ³ American College of Chest Physicians, Glenview, IL.
• ⁴ Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
• ⁵ College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
• ⁷ Canadian Thoracic Society, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ⁸ Division of Respirology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁹ University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
• ¹⁰ Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ¹¹ Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
• ¹² School of Physiotherapy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
• ¹³ University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL.
• ¹⁴ Medical Center/Atlantic Health System, Morristown, NJ.
• ¹⁵ Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
• ¹⁶ Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
• ¹⁷ The Evidence Doc, Pacific, MO.
• ¹⁸ Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
• ¹⁹ Division of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Royal University Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
• ²⁰ Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, OR.
• ²¹ Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ²² Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.