Task Forces and Guidelines
The call to submit a Task Force application is open.
Submission annual deadline: 1 February 2021. Please note that the 1st of June deadline is no longer applicable.
The online application form is available on MyERS. Once connected with your personal MyERS account, click on “Research” and “Apply for Task Force” to open the submission platform.
ERS provides financial support to groups of members looking to form a task force to produce Guidelines, Statements and Technical Standards. Once published, the documents provide clarity and direction for a number of topics in respiratory medicine with the aim of improving clinical practice.
All ERS members are eligible to apply for funding to set up a Task Force.
ERS Task Forces: Guideline, Statement and Technical Standard
As of 2021, the annual deadline to submit a Task Force application is set to February 1.
Priority will be given to projects which aim to develop official ERS Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Should you have any questions regarding the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the ERS Office prior to the deadline.
Important documents:
- ERS Task Force Guidance 2021
- ERS Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Form
- List of frequently asked questions on ERS document development.
The ERS also encourages the development of joint documents with other socities (except joint ERS/ATS task forces for which a special deadline applies each year in July). ERS members involved in a Task Force with another society are therefore encouraged to contact the ERS Guidelines Working Group (at scientific@ersnet.org to discuss the opportunity to develop a joint project.
Once published, manuscripts developed by ERS Task Forces are made available on the ERS E-learning website.
ERS Short Guideline and Short Statement
The new ERS Short Guideline and Short Statement are designed to respond very quickly to the release of new evidence that could lead to marked changes in clinical practice. As a result, the ERS offers to his members support to address, whenever required, burning questions on which urgent and precise reactions are required. Short guidance projects are divided into 2 types of documents:
- Short guidelines, developed according to the GRADE approach and aiming at providing clinical research recommendation
- Short statements, based on a systematic literature search but without grading of the evidence. These documents cannot contain clinical practice recommendation.
Both type of manuscripts are intended to be concise, very focused and developed within a maximum of 1 year.
ERS accepts application for Short Guideline and Short Statement year-round.
- ERS Short Guideline and Short Statement Guideline and Application Form (for ERS only projects)
- ERS Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Form
- List of frequently asked questions on ERS document development.
ERS/ATS joint Task Forces
The annual deadline to submit an ERS/ATS task force application will be in July (exact date TBC).
Task Forces joint with other societies (except ATS)
ERS also encourages the development of joint documents with other societies. If you are an ERS member involved in a Task Force with another society, contact the ERS Guidelines Working Group (at guidelines_statements@ersnet.org) to discuss the opportunity to develop an official joint project.
For any other questions, please contact the ERS office at guidelines_statements@ersnet.org.
Methodological Support and patients' involvement
Useful documents:
- Useful resources for ERS guidelines developers
- A step by step guide of the GRADE approach
- Guide for chairs on involving patients in Task Forces
The ERS has two in-house methodologists who can help the Task Force Chairs apply a correct methodology throughout their Task Force development. They can also be contacted for any questions relating to the completion of an application. Any questions for the ERS methodologists can be sent to scientific@ersnet.org.
SUGGESTED TIMELINES TO DEVELOP TASK FORCE DOCUMENTS:
AGREE TOOL
The ERS Science Council recommends to use the AGREE tool to develop Guidelines. Please consult the AGREE website.
Ongoing Task Forces
Task Force Number | Task Force Name | Task Force Chairs |
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TF-2019-16 | Technical Standards on Scoring of respiratory events using Type III devices for the diagnosis of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Adults and Children | Renata Riha, Winfried Randerath |
TF-2019-12 | Statement on Management of Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | Alexander Mathioudakis, Jens-Ulrich Jensen |
TF-2019-09 | Guidelines on Transbronchial (cryo)biopsy and surgical lung biopsy in interstitial lung diseases | Venerino Poletti, Jouke Annema |
TF-2019-05 | Guidelines on Management of Spontaneous Pneumothorax | Najib Rahman, Guiseppe Cardillo |
TF-2019-03 | Statement on Dyspnea in acutelly ill mechanically ventilated patients | Alexandre Demoule, Leo Heunks |
TF-2019-01 | Statement on Pediatric long-term NIV | Brigitte Fauroux, Stijn Verhulst |
TF-2018-17 | Short Clinical Practice Guideline on Inhaled corticosteroid use and withdrawal in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | James Chalmers, Marc Miravitlles |
TF-2018-14 | Statement on Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) | Vincent Cottin |
TF-2018-11 | Updated Technical Standards for Interpretive Strategies for Basic Lung Function Tests | Sanja Stanojevic, David Kaminsky |
TF-2018-16 | Statement on Lung Cancer Screening | Mina Gaga, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor |
TF-2018-15 | Statement on Lung Cancer Stage 1A | Nir Peled, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor |
TF-2018-08 | Statement on Diagnosis and investigation of central sleep apnoea in children aged 1 month to 18 years | Hui-Leng Tan |
TF-2018-07 | Techincal Standards on Developing Lung Function Initiative (GLI) reference equations for exhaled and nasal nitric oxide | Anh-Tuan Dinh-Xuan, Graham Hall |
TF-2018-05 | Clinical Practice Guideline on Thoracic Ultrasound | Christian B. Laursen, Nick Maskell |
TF-2018-04 | Statement on Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension | Marion Delcroix, Gerald Simonneau, Mayer Eckhard |
TF-2018-03 | Guidelines on Bronchiectasis in children | Ahmad Kantar, Anne Chang |
TF-2018-02 | Guidelines on Diagnosis of Asthma in adults | Louis Renaud, Usmani Omar |
TF-2018-01 | Guidelines on Non-CPAP Therapies for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea | Winfried Randerath, Johan Verbraecken |
TF-2017-09 | Updated technical standards for spirometry | Brian Graham, Irene Steenbruggen |
TF-2017-06 | Guidelines on Diagnosis of asthma in children aged 5 to 16 years | Erol Gaillard, Alexander Moller |
TF-2017-04 | Statement on Interpretation of Nitric Oxide Uptake in the Lung | Anh-Tuan Dinh-Xuan, Gerald Zavorsky |
TF-2017-03 | Guidelines on Management of severe Community acquired pneumonia | Antoni Torres, Ignacio Martin-Loeches |
TF-2017-01 | Guidelines on Long term non-invasive ventilation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Wolfram Windisch, Raffaele Scala |
TF-2016-23 | Statement on Development of ERS/TSANZ Statement - Care of patients with airways disease during pregnancy | Peter Middleton, Vibeke Backer |
TF-2016-22 | Guidelines on Cough 2017 | Alyn Morice, Eva Millqvist |
TF-2016-21 | Statement on Tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia in children | Kostas Priftis, Colin Wallis |
TF-2016-16 | Guidelines on Definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma | Fernando Holguin, Andy Bush |
TF-2016-10 | Guidelines on Sarcoidosis treatment | Bob Baughman, Dominique Valeyre |
TF-2016-08 | Statement on Sleepiness and fitness to drive in patients with obstructive sleep apnea | Maria Bonsignore, Walter McNicholas |
TF-2016-05 | Statement on Sleep disorders and Stroke | Claudio Bassetti, Winfried Randerath |
TF-2016-01 | Statement on Chest imaging in Acute Respiratory Failure | Davide Chiumello, Paolo Navalesi |
TF-2015-19 | Technical Standard on Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI): Deriving global multi-ethnic reference values for the measurement of lung volumes | Graham Hall, Brendan Cooper |
TF-2015-18 | Guidelines on Long term management of bronchopulmonary dysplasia | Liesbeth Duijts, Marielle Pijnenburg, Charles Roehr |
TF-2015-16 | Statement on Understanding of and Adherence to International Guidelines in the Management of Stable Asthma by Non-Specialists. Indications for Specialist Referral | Mathioudakis Alexandros, Olympia Tsilochristou, Christer Janson, Ioana Agache |
TF-2015-06 | Statement on Severe asthma exacerbations, facts, priorities and key research questions | Mina Gaga |
TF-2014-23 | Guidelines on Management of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma patients | Giuseppe Cardillo, Arnaud Sherpereel |
TF-2014-21 | Guidelines on MDR TB | Giovanni Battista Migliori, Payam Nahid |
TF-2014-17 | Techincal Standard on Forced Oscillation Technique | Gregory King, Ellie Oostveen |
TF-2013-15 | Guidelines on Management of diseases caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria | C. Lange, J. Van Ingen |