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Welcome to the IPCRG website The IPCRG is a charity registered in Scotland working internationally that acts as an umbrella organisation for national primary care respiratory interest groups. Our aim is to use our international network: to undertake research in community settings; to produce evidence-based practical guidance appropriate for primary care professionals; and to develop education programmes.	Click here to sign up for e-alerts with news about the IPCRG and the latest info on this site Word COPD Day: IPCRG guide on early diagnosis of COPD Click for more information WHO Health Professionals Global Network World Asthma Day – IPCRG campaign materials Click for more information, resources and activities. Asthma control: new education resources More Exciting Uncontrolled Asthma Audit More NEW! UKRRF awarded NIHR partner organisation status More Airline Oxygen Provision Database Click here IPCRG Exchanges: Asthma Guidelines 2008 More See all the ahead-of-print PCRJ articles as soon as they are published online More Details of the latest issue of PCRJ More Tackling the smoking epidemic More Jak pr(ekonat tabákovou epidemii) (Tackling the Smoking Epidemic in Czech) Click here Asthma Control Tools More
5th IPCRG World Conference, Toronto, Canada June 2-5, 2010 The IPCRG is delighted to announce our next biennial world conference to be held in Toronto, Canada in June 2010. For all the latest information about the conference programme and speakers, registration, accommodation, abstracts and more, visit the conference website. Call for abstracts The conference Scientific Committee invites you to submit your abstracts online. Click here to do so. Closing date: 22 February 2010
IPCRG raises profile of primary care at WHO-GARD In Rome, at the June 2009 Annual Meeting of the WHO’s Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD) three IPCRG demonstration projects were approved. Congratulations to our colleagues in Vietnam and Bangladesh. (Proposals: Asthma and COPD management, Vietnam demonstration project and Better Breathing Bangladesh) We are delighted to report that Niels Chavannes was elected as Primary Care and Monica Fletcher as Allied Health Professional representatives on the GARD Planning Group, which constitutes the driving force behind GARD. We are at advanced stages of planning the next GARD meeting to be run in Toronto, just before our Biennial Conference, which will further enhance the profile of the role of primary care in preventing and controlling chronic respiratory disease.
Top peer-reviewed papers from IPCRG and partners World Allergy Organization Postion Paper 2009. World Allergy Organization Journal 2(11): 233-281. November 2009 doi:10.1097/WOX.0b013e318c6c379 Unmet needs in severe chronic upper airway disease (SCUD). J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2009 Sep;124(3):428-33. Epub 2009 Aug 5. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2009.06.027 Guidelines for allergic rhinitis need to be used in primary care. doi:10.4104/pcrj.2009.00028 Not all asthma inhalers are the same: factores to consider when prescribing an inhaler. doi:10.4104/pcrj.2009.00029 Spirometry in primary care case-identification, diagnosis and management of COPD DOI: 10.4104/pcrj.2009.00055 Cited in Screening for and early detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, The Lancet, Volume 374, Issue 9691, Pages 721 - 732, 29 August 2009 Antibiotic prescribing and outcomes of lower respiratory tract infection in UK primary care. doi:10.1378/chest.08-2940 The Brussels Declaration: the need for change in asthma management Achieving asthma control in practice: Understanding the reasons for poor control (DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2008.08.003) With Ga²Len, Primary care: the cornerstone of diagnosis of allergic rhinitis (DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2008.01653.x) Prevention and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in primary care: position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care
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