Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Palliative care" and "Society guideline links: Dyspnea" and "Society guideline links: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease".)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't use oxygen therapy to treat non-hypoxic dyspnea (2020)

●End-of-life care for persons with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Report of a national interdisciplinary consensus meeting (2009)

United States

●American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO): Guideline on management of dyspnea in advanced cancer (2021)

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American Thoracic Society (ATS): Official clinical practice guidelines on noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure (2017)

●American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) and ATS: Policy statement on shared decision making in ICUs (2016)

●ATS: An official policy statement for managing conscientious objections in intensive care medicine (2015)

●ATS/American Association for Critical Care Nurses (AACN)/American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)/European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)/Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): An official policy statement for responding to requests for potentially inappropriate treatments in intensive care units (2015)

●Improving Palliative Care in the ICU (IPAL-ICU): A report on palliative care in the ICU – Relief of pain, dyspnea, and thirst (2014)

●ATS: An official workshop report for assessment and palliative management of dyspnea crisis (2013)

●ATS: An official clinical policy statement on palliative care for patients with respiratory diseases and critical illnesses (2008)

Europe

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American Thoracic Society (ATS): Official clinical practice guidelines on noninvasive ventilation for acute respiratory failure (2017)

●ATS/American Association for Critical Care Nurses (AACN)/American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP)/European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)/Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): An official policy statement for responding to requests for potentially inappropriate treatments in intensive care units (2015)

Japan

●Japanese Society for Palliative Medicine (JSPM): Intensive palliative care for delirium, dyspnea, and pain – Before the diagnosis of the symptoms as being refractory (2019)