Updated 10 November 2023



ECFS best practice guidelines: the 2018 revision.

Castellani C, Duff AJA, Bell SC, Heijerman HGM, Munck A, Ratjen F, Sermet-Gaudelus I, Southern KW, Barben J, Flume PA, Hodková P, Kashirskaya N, Kirszenbaum MN, Madge S, Oxley H, Plant B, Schwarzenberg SJ, Smyth AR, Taccetti G, Wagner TOF, Wolfe SP, Drevinek P.
J Cyst Fibros. 2018 Mar;17(2):153-178

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(The translation of the ECFS Standards of Care documents was organised by Prof. Nataliya Kashirskaya with the help of  the charitable foundation ‘Ostrova’ )




Standards of Care for Cystic Fibrosis ten years later

Carlo Castellani , Steven Conway, Alan R. Smyth, Martin Stern, J. Stuart Elborn 
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 13 Supl 1: S1-S2
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(The translation of the ECFS Standards of Care documents was organised by Prof. Nataliya Kashirskaya with the help of  the charitable foundation ‘Ostrova’ )


European Cystic Fibrosis Society Standards of Care: Framework for the Cystic Fibrosis Centre

Steven Conway , Ian M. Balfour-Lynn, Karleen De Rijcke, Pavel Drevinek, Juliet Foweraker, Trudy Havermans, Harry Heijerman, Louise Lannefors, Anders Lindblad, Milan Macek, Sue Madge, Maeve Moran, Lisa Morrison, Alison Morton , Jacquelien Noordhoek, Dorota Sands, Anneke Vertommen, Daniel Peckham 
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 13 Supl 1: S3-S22
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(The translation of the ECFS Standards of Care documents was organised by Prof. Nataliya Kashirskaya with the help of  the charitable foundation ‘Ostrova’ )


European Cystic Fibrosis Society Standards of Care: Best Practice guidelines

Alan R. Smyth, Scott C. Bell, Snezana Bojcin, Mandy Bryon, Alistair Duff, Patrick Flume, Nataliya Kashirskaya, Anne Munck, Felix Ratjen, Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, Isabelle Sermet-Gaudelus, Kevin W. Southern, Giovanni Taccetti, Gerald Ullrich, Sue Wolfe 
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 13 Supl 1:  S23-S42
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(The translation of the ECFS Standards of Care documents was organised by Prof. Nataliya Kashirskaya with the help of  the charitable foundation ‘Ostrova’ )

European Cystic Fibrosis Society Standards of Care: Quality Management in cystic fibrosis

Martin Stern, Dominique Pougheon Bertrand, Elisabetta Bignamini, Mary Corey, Birgit Dembski, Christopher H. Goss, Tanja Pressler, Gilles Rault, Laura Viviani, J. Stuart Elborn, Carlo Castellani 
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 13 Supl 1:  S43-S59
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(The translation of the ECFS Standards of Care documents was organised by Prof. Nataliya Kashirskaya with the help of  the charitable foundation ‘Ostrova’ )

Treatment of lung infection in patients with cystic fibrosis:Current and future strategies

Döring G, Flume P, Heijerman H, Elborn JS for the consensus study group
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 2012; 11 : 461-79 
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Standards of care for patients with cystic fibrosis: A European consensus

Kerem E, Conway S, Elborn S, Heijerman H for the Consensus Committee
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 2005; 4: 7-26
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