ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the General Pneumology Assembly

Lowie E G W Vanfleteren; Léo Blervaque; Frits M E Franssen; Luke Daines; Janwillem W H Kocks; Persijn J Honkoop; Vitalii Poberezhets

doi:10.1183/23120541.00323-2019

ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the General Pneumology Assembly

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Mar 2;6(1):00323-2019. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00323-2019. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Lowie E G W Vanfleteren¹, Léo Blervaque², Frits M E Franssen^{3

4}, Luke Daines⁵, Janwillem W H Kocks^{6

7}, Persijn J Honkoop^{8

9}, Vitalii Poberezhets¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ COPD Center, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Institute of Medicine, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
² PhyMedExp, INSERM, CNRS, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.
³ CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands.
⁴ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
⁵ Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁶ General Practitioners Research Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁷ Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute, Singapore.
⁸ Dept of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁹ Dept of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
¹⁰ Dept of Propedeutics of Internal Medicine, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, Ukraine.

Abstract

This article contains highlights and a selection of the scientific advances from the European Respiratory Society's General Pneumology Assembly that were presented at the 2019 European Respiratory Society International Congress in Madrid, Spain. The most relevant topics from the different groups will be discussed, covering a wide range of areas including rehabilitation and chronic care, general practice and primary care and M-health and E-health. In this review, the newest research and actual data as well as award-winning abstracts and highlight sessions will be discussed.

Publication types

Review