CHEST content shown in digital and print formats

Guidelines & Topic Collections

Everything we publish is designed to keep you up-to-date on the latest news, approaches, and ideas in chest medicine. From the most relevant research findings to the most significant clinical guidelines, these are the highly accredited resources you count on from CHEST.

Advertisement


Enhance your patient care with evidence-based guidelines

Used throughout the world, our multidisciplinary guidelines help translate quality evidence into applicable recommendations that enrich patient care and improve health outcomes.

artistic rendering of red blood cells

FEATURED GUIDELINE

Red Blood Cell Transfusion in the ICU

This CHEST guideline contains six evidence-based recommendations for RBC transfusion among critically ill patients overall and specific subgroups, including patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, acute coronary syndrome, and more.


A person holds a EBUS transbronchial needle

FEATURED GUIDELINE

Acquisition and Handling of Endobronchial Ultrasound Transbronchial Needle Samples

This CHEST guideline contains nine evidence-based recommendations to identify best practices for the collection, processing, and handling of EBUS-TBNA specimens.


Guidelines by topic

Access CHEST’s full collection of guidelines, expert panel reports, and consensus statements.

Guideline topics


Explore the latest research

The CHEST® journal portfolio features the best in peer-reviewed, cutting-edge original research in the multidisciplinary specialties of chest medicine—pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine—and related disciplines. With a loyal readership base, the portfolio, including the journals CHEST, CHEST® Critical Care, and CHEST® Pulmonary, is one of the most highly regarded, and up-to-date sources of clinical knowledge in the field.

A young boy uses an inhaler while sitting in a school lesson
ASTHMA

Recommendations for Clinicians to Combat Environmental Disparities in Pediatric Asthma

Asthma is a common lung disease in children with environmental factors, including unhealthy housing and school-based exposures, contributing to increased asthma morbidity and widening disparities. A review in the journal CHEST® highlights environmental factors at the housing and school levels to be aware of and encourages clinicians to make evidence-based recommendations to drive effective exposure reduction strategies to mitigate asthma morbidity.


Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria
CHEST INFECTIONS

Eosinopenia as Predictor of Disease Severity in Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Studies have found that eosinophil levels <50/μL correlate with an increased mortality in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in addition to acute exacerbation of COPD. To better understand the role of eosinopenia for predicting short-term outcomes in CAP, a study in the journal CHEST® analyzed blood eosinopenia ≤50/μL as a predictor of disease severity in patients with CAP.

Test your knowledge

See if you can answer this question based on a recent journal CHEST article.

Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP

Editor Highlights Podcast

Each month, the journal CHEST Editor in Chief Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, adds context and commentary to important articles featured in the new issue.

OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS | Submit your research to be published in our new journals. CHEST® CRITICAL CARE » | CHEST® PULMONARY »

Take a deep dive into your clinical interests

Whatever your specialty, CHEST has a topic collection that you’ll be interested in. Uncover insights from key opinion leaders, find CME opportunities, and discover original research articles.

Older couple with laptop

Closing the diagnosis gap for patients with ILD

With the Bridging Specialties™: Timely Diagnosis for ILD initiative, we're defining a clearer clinician-guided approach to diagnosis for interstitial lung diseases like pulmonary fibrosis. Explore expert-based clinical resources that you can use in your practice.

LEARN MORE

Older couple with laptop

Get the inside track

Do you want to hear directly from your colleagues on the topics that matter most? Catch up on episodes that feature critical discussions with giants in the field and hear directly from authors featured in CHEST journal.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

December 2024 CHEST Journal Editor Highlights

Originally aired: December 2, 2024

CHEST® journal Editor in Chief, Peter Mazzone, MD, MPH, FCCP, highlights key articles published in the December 2024 issue.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

Differences in Health Care and Palliative Care Utilization at the End of Life

Originally aired: December 2, 2024

Angela O. Suen, MD, discusses her research comparing health care and palliative care use by patients with COPD, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and lung cancer at the end of life.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

Association of RBC Transfusion Thresholds and Outcomes in Medical Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure Supported With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Originally aired: December 2, 2024

Elias H. Pratt, MD, discusses his research exploring whether implementation of different institutional RBC transfusion thresholds for patients receiving venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is associated with changes in RBC use and patient outcomes.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

Association Between Spontaneous Breathing Trial Methods and Reintubation in Adult Critically Ill Patients

Originally aired: November 1, 2024

Mariachiara Ippolito, MD, and Andrea Cortegiani, MD, discuss their research exploring the association of different methods for conducting spontaneous breathing trials with the risk of reintubation among critically ill adult patients.

Stay at the forefront of chest medicine

Clinical advances, practice management updates, medical conference highlights—reading the CHEST Physician® publication is the easiest way to be in the know every month.

CHEST physician front cover
CHEST physician front cover

Stay at the forefront of chest medicine

Clinical advances, practice management updates, medical conference highlights—reading the CHEST Physician® publication is the easiest way to be in the know every month.