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New guidelines:

Canadian Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline on pharmacotherapy in patients with COPD – 2019 update of evidence
Diagnosis of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: A Canadian Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline update.

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Guideline Library

Domain	Guideline/Position Statement	Publication	Status	COI Disclosure Tables	Reviewers’ Comments-AGREEII
Asthma	Are the 2019 Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) strategy recommendations applicable to the Canadian context? - Question & Answer Document	2019	Current	N/A	N/A
Asthma	Recognition and management of severe asthma – Position Statement - Evidence Tables	2017	Current	Available	Available
Asthma	Diagnosis and management of asthma in preschoolers: A Canadian Thoracic Society and Canadian Pediatric Society Position Statement	2015	Current	Available
Asthma	Guideline Update: Diagnosis and management of asthma in preschoolers, children and adults	2012	Under Review
Asthma	Guideline: Asthma Management Continuum – Consensus Summary for children six years of age and over, and adults	2010	Under Review
Asthma	Guideline: Summary of Recommendations from the Canadian Asthma Consensus	2003	Archived
Asthma	Adult Asthma Consensus Guidelines Update	2003	Archived
Asthma	2003 Guideline: Canadian Pediatric Asthma Consensus	2005	Archived
Asthma	Canadian Asthma Consensus Report	1999	Archived
Asthma	Guideline for Occupational Asthma	1998	Archived

COPD	CTS guideline on pharmacotherapy in patients with COPD— 2019 update of evidence	2019	Current
COPD	Quality indicators for pulmonary rehabilitation programs in Canada: A CTS expert working group report	2019	Current
COPD	CTS position statement: Pharmacotherapy in patients with COPD - An Update	2017	Updated in 2019
COPD	2014 CHEST-CTS Guideline: Prevention of Acute Exacerbation of COPD	2014	Current	Included in the guideline	n/a
COPD	CTS Guideline: Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency targeted testing and augmentation therapy	2012	Under Review	Available	n/a
COPD	CTS Guideline: Managing dyspnea in patients with advanced COPD	2011	Under Review	Available	n/a
COPD	CTS Guideline: Optimizing pulmonary rehabilitation in COPD – practical issues	2010	Under Review	Available	n/a
COPD	Update CTS Guideline – Highlights for Primary Care – Recommendations for Management of COPD	2008	Under Review	n/a	n/a
COPD	Update CTS Guideline – Recommendations for Management of COPD	2007	Under Review	n/a	n/a
COPD	CTS Guideline – Recommendations for Management of COPD	2003	Archived
COPD	CTS Guidelines for the Management of Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Bronchitis	2003	Archived

Home Mechanical Ventilation	Home mechanical ventilation for patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A CTS Clinical Practice Guideline	2019	Current
Home Mechanical Ventilation	Pediatric Home Mechanical Ventilation: A CTS Clinical Practice Guideline	2017	Current	Available
Home Mechanical Ventilation	(Adult) Home Mechanical Ventilation: A CTS Clinical Practice Guideline	2011	Update in Progress	Available	n/a

Interstitial Lung Disease	Standard of Care for Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease – Position Statement	2018	Current
Interstitial Lung Disease	Evaluation of patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease – CTS Position Statement	2017	Current
Interstitial Lung Disease	Long-term Monitoring of Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease – Position Statement		In Preparation

Sleep Disorders	Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Driving: A Canadian Thoracic Society and Canadian Sleep Society Position Paper	2014	Current	Available	n/a
Sleep Disorders	CTS Guideline Update: Diagnosis and treatment of sleep disordered breathing	2011	Update in Progress	Available	n/a
Sleep Disorders	CTS/CSS Position Paper on the use of portable monitoring for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea in adults	2010	Under Review	n/a	n/a
Sleep Disorders	CTS Guideline – Executive Summary – Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Adults	2006	Archived

Spirometry	Spirometry in primary care – Position Statement	2013	Under Review	Available

Tuberculosis/ Infectious Diseases	Canadian Tuberculosis Standards, 7th Edition	2014	Under Review
Tuberculosis/ Infectious Diseases	Summary of Canadian Guidelines for the Initial Management of Community-acquired Pneumonia: An evidence-based update by the Canadian Infectious Diseases Society and the CTS	2000	Archived

Pediatric	Pediatric Home Mechanical Ventilation: A CTS Clinical Practice Guideline	2017	Current
Pediatric	Diagnosis and management of asthma in preschoolers: A Canadian Thoracic Society and Canadian Pediatric Society Position Statement	2015	Current
Pediatric	Clinical practice guideline for diagnostic testing for children with obstructive sleep apnea: A joint initiative of the Canadian Thoracic Society and the Canadian Sleep Society		In preparation

Pulmonary Vascular Diseases	Diagnosis of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: A Canadian Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline update	2019	Current
Pulmonary Vascular Diseases	Diagnostic Evaluation and Management of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Clinical Practice Guideline	2010	Update in Progress	Available
Pulmonary Vascular Diseases	Overview of general treatments in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension – Joint Canadian Cardiovascular Society and Canadian Thoracic Society position statement		In Preparation

Status Definitions

CURRENT Guidelines and Statements that have been published within the past 3 years, or that have been reviewed and confirmed to still be current.
UNDER REVIEW Guidelines that have been published over 3 years ago and are being considered by the Assembly for possible full revision or recommendations being updated.
UPDATE IN PROGRESS Guidelines that are in the process of being revised.
IN PREPARATION Guidelines or Statements that are in the process of being produced.
ARCHIVED Guidelines or Statements that are deemed to be no longer current as a more recent version has been published.

Other CTS Guidance and Endorsements

Domain	Title	Publication Date
Choosing Wisely	The Canadian Thoracic Society's list of six things that physicians and patients should question	2017
Cough	Cough Toolkit – Etiology, evaluation and treatments	2012
	ACCP Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Cough	2006
Immunization	Canadian Immunization Guide Chapter on Influenza and Statement on Seasonal Influenza Vaccine for 2019–2020 The Importance of Frailty in the Assessment of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Against Influenza-Related Hospitalization in Elderly People	2019
Pulmonary Rehabilitation	Exercise prescription practices in pulmonary rehabilitation programs	2017
	Continuing professional development, training opportunities, and research participation of pulmonary rehabilitation programs in Canada: A rural versus urban comparison	2017
	Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Canada: A Report from the CTS COPD Clinical Assembly	2015
Smoking	Canadian Task Force on Preventative Health Care Recommendations on behavioural interventions for the prevention and treatment of cigarette smoking among school-aged children and youth	2017