Official ATS Documents include clinical practice guidelines, clinical statements, policy statements, research statements, technical standards, and workshop reports, many of which are developed collaboratively with other professional societies.
- Clinical practice guidelines make recommendations for patient care. The recommendations are based upon a systematic review and then formulated and graded using the GRADE approach.
- Clinical statements make recommendations for patient care, which are based upon a pragmatic evidence synthesis.
- Policy and research statements present the views of the ATS on issues related to public policy or research policy, respectively.
- Technical statements describe how to perform a test or procedure and describe the underlying evidence.
- Workshop reports describe conferences and workshops sponsored by the ATS.
Most Official ATS Documents are housed on the ATS Journals website, including abstracts, references, supplemental materials and more. A small number of official ATS documents that were co-sponsored by other professional societies appear in those societies’ journals. For inquiries pertaining to official ATS documents, please contact the Documents Department at documents@thoracic.org or refer to the Official ATS Documents Handbook.
A list of published ATS documents can be found on the ATS Journals site.