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CHEST^® Pulmonary

As part of the CHEST^® journal portfolio, CHEST Pulmonary advances the care of patients served by multidisciplinary clinicians across pulmonary and sleep medicine. As an open access publication, CHEST Pulmonary features content that is permanently and freely available online for all. To date, the journal has been indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals and Scopus.

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DIFFUSE LUNG DISEASE

Tolerability and Safety of Nintedanib and Immunosuppression in Autoimmune Inflammatory Myopathy-Associated Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis
Is the addition of nintedanib to immunosuppression safe and tolerable in patients with autoimmune-inflammatory myopathy-related interstitial lung disease, and does nintedanib administration induce peripheral blood cell gene expression changes?

EDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

Using Cognitive Load to Differentiate Experience Levels for Performing Endobronchial Ultrasound Bronchoscopy
Can cognitive load measurements be used to differentiate experience levels and determine the relative importance of procedural steps in endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy?

SLEEP

Incidence, Characteristics, and Management Pathways of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in England: A 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study
What are the incidence of OSA, patient characteristics, comorbidities, diagnostic methods, treatment pathways, and waiting times in England?

THORACIC ONCOLOGY

Recurrent Malignant Pleural Effusion Management: Evaluating Quality Gaps, Outcomes, Costs, and Adherence to Guideline-Consistent Care
What percentage of patients with rapidly recurrent symptomatic malignant pleural effusion receive guideline-consistent early definitive management, and are there differences in care outcomes?

Submit your research to CHEST Pulmonary

CHEST Pulmonary accepts submissions of original research, which includes early phase clinical trials, implementation science, health service delivery, medical decision-making, cost-effectiveness analyses, quality improvement, database analyses, artificial intelligence applications, clinical education research, methodology/study design descriptions, region-specific reports, and secondary analysis of published data or data subsets.

Note about article publishing charges: After acceptance, authors of CHEST Pulmonary will be asked to pay an article publishing charge. CHEST strives to make open-access publishing accessible for all. Learn about opportunities for discounted or waived article publication charges, including a 20% discount for CHEST members.

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The impact of CHEST Pulmonary

CHEST Pulmonary expands the focus of the CHEST journal portfolio to offer even more comprehensive research into the unique challenges faced every day by clinicians treating patients with pulmonary and sleep disorders.

A high-quality complement to the flagship

CHEST Pulmonary serves as a much-needed complement to the flagship journal CHEST, offering high-quality, targeted research on pulmonary and sleep medicine that builds on the portfolio’s reputation for publishing practice-changing content.

New publishing opportunities

As more institutions mandate publication in open-access journals, and the number of submissions to the flagship journal continues to increase, CHEST Pulmonary offers more opportunities for clinicians to publish their research and impact the way we deliver patient care.

Greater access to research

With an open-access model, any reader anywhere can access the findings published in CHEST Pulmonary, helping more clinicians across the world deliver more informed patient care.

MEET THE EDITOR

Matthew Miles, MD, MEd, FCCP

Dr. Miles, the Editor in Chief of CHEST Pulmonary, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, where he maintains an active clinical practice in general pulmonology and critical care medicine. He holds a Master’s in Education and Curriculum Development from the University of Cincinnati and is Director of the Wake Forest Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship program.

Browse CHEST scholarly journals

CHEST Pulmonary is part of the CHEST family of journals. Learn about our other publications:

CHEST Journal, our flagship journal, features the best in peer-reviewed, cutting-edge original research in the multidisciplinary specialties of chest medicine.

CHEST Critical Care advances the care of patients served by multidisciplinary clinicians across critical care medicine.

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