%0 Journal Article
%T Rationale for the Turin Conference/Congress 2012
%A Claudio F Donner
%A Carlo Gulotta
%J Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/2049-6958-7-1
%X The 2012 ¡°Pulmonary Advances¡±, which will be held in Turin, will deal with new developments in respiratory medicine as well as with their cost-effectiveness and the best way to deliver them, with particular focus on the possibilities of integration between specialists and primary care medicine. Two major scientific events will run in parallel: the 7th International Conference and the 3rd National Congress of AIMAR (Interdisciplinary Scientific Association for Research in Lung Disease). The novel idea underpinning AIMAR is that management of respiratory diseases should not be solely in the hands of the pneumologists but should be multidisciplinary. This approach goes beyond the purely ¡®organ specialist¡¯ outlook prevalent in clinical practice, integrating the diverse professional figures (including non-medical health professionals) to promote, through continuing professional education, the development of joint clinical controlled studies, epidemiological surveillance and public health education in order to lay the foundations for an optimal management of respiratory diseases. The Conference/Congress of Turin 2012 will thus have a clear interdisciplinary character, offering the maximum in terms of quality, up-to-date information in the fight against and prevention of CRDs. This is in harmony with the scope of GARD (Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases), a WHO-based voluntary alliance of national and international organizations aimed at improving the respiratory health of the general population by fighting the current problem of underdiagnosis and undertreatment of CRDs. The benefit of this is very evident to professionals, health planners and decision makers, but what benefit is there for the patient and general public? There is nothing but to gain from a greater flow of information between the various specialists and a more integrated mode of clinical practice. Patient management will no longer be - as it is often today - the fruit of improvised collab
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