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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.

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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.

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FEATURED GUIDELINE

Management of Central Airway Obstruction

These recommendations highlight the management of symptomatic malignant and nonmalignant central airway obstruction.


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FEATURED GUIDELINE

Antithrombotic Therapy in COVID-19

This CHEST guideline contains 11 evidence-based recommendations to improve risk evaluation and assist in determining the course of treatment.


Guidelines by topic

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

Guideline topics

JOIN A GUIDELINE PANEL | CHEST is recruiting members to join our guideline panels and help develop guidelines that support clinicians around the world. Submit your name for consideration by Monday, October 21. SUBMIT APPLICATION »

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.

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EDITORIAL

Peeling Back the Onion: Kidney Disease Across Clinical Sepsis Phenotypes

Sepsis is the most common contributing factor identified in acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients. A journal CHEST® article highlights recent efforts that have focused on attempts to identify and validate the different phenotypes of sepsis.


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HUMANITIES

An Ethically Supported Framework for Determining Patient Notification and Informed Consent Practices When Using Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

An article in the journal CHEST® provides hospital leaders with guidance on when to tell patients about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their care. The authors provide criteria to consider when evaluating AI use-cases and explore their framework using a case example.

Test your knowledge

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

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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.

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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.

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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

October 2024 CHEST Journal Editor Highlights

Originally aired: October 1, 2024

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

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

ICU Staffing in the United States

Originally aired: October 1, 2024

Hayley B. Gershengorn, MD, discusses a cross-sectional survey of adult ICU clinicians exploring interprofessional ICU staffing availability and roles at a steady state before the COVID-19 pandemic.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

Rates and Risk Factors of Progression in Patients With Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease

Originally aired: September 2, 2024

Jae-Joon Yim, MD, discusses a study exploring the clinical course of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease in patients observed over more than 5 years.

CHEST JOURNAL PODCAST

Achieving Goals of Care Decisions in Chronic Critical Illness

Originally aired: July 1, 2024

Sarah K. Andersen, MD, discusses how intensivists from various health systems facilitate decision-making for goals of care for patients with chronic critical illness.

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.

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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.