TY - JOUR T1 - European Respiratory Society clinical practice guidelines: methodological guidance JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00655-2021 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 00655-2021 AU - Blin Nagavci AU - Thomy Tonia AU - Nicolas Roche AU - Celine Genton AU - Valerie Vaccaro AU - Marc Humbert AU - Christopher Brightling AU - Carlos Robalo Cordeiro AU - Andrew Bush Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/8/1/00655-2021.abstract N2 - As one of the leading respiratory organisations, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) brings together physicians, healthcare professionals, scientists and other experts working in respiratory medicine. One of their roles is to provide guidance on clinical practice by developing high-quality clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). This is achieved by establishing specific task forces through an annual call for applications (except for short documents, for which applications can be submitted at any time [1]), and a rigorous selection and peer review process. Once approved, task force members, supported by ERS methodologists, work together for 2 years to develop CPGs using rigorous methodology, which, on satisfactory completion, are then adopted by ERS as official documents.ERS has published official methodological guidance for clinical practice guidelines. ERS recommends this to ensure that state-of-the-art guidelines are developed. https://bit.ly/3xP5SSr ER -