Everything about ATS

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ATSA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (an Update) and Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis in Adults: An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice GuidelineInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WilsonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: ATS Statement: Guidelines for the Six-Minute Walk TestCited 10,221 times
5. Go sideways: Doctor of TheologyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Computer reservation systemA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• ATS Statement: Guidelines for the Six-Minute Walk Test

  · 2002 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 10,221 citations

• An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management

  Ganesh Raghu, Harold R. Collard, Jim J. Egan · 2011 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 6,184 citations

• An Official ATS/IDSA Statement: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Diseases

  David E. Griffith, Timothy Aksamit, Barbara A. Brown-Elliott · 2007 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 5,305 citations

• 2001 SCCM/ESICM/ACCP/ATS/SIS International Sepsis Definitions Conference

  Mitchell M. Levy, Mitchell P. Fink, John C. Marshall · 2003 · Critical Care Medicine · 4,589 citations

• Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline

  Ganesh Raghu, Martine Remy-Jardin, Jeffrey L. Myers · 2018 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 3,688 citations

• International ERS/ATS guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma

  Kian Fan Chung, Sally E. Wenzel, Jan L. Brozek · 2013 · European Respiratory Journal · 3,418 citations

• Standards for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD: a summary of the ATS/ERS position paper

  B.R. Celli, W. MacNee, A. Agusti · 2004 · European Respiratory Journal · 3,160 citations

• ATS/ERS Recommendations for Standardized Procedures for the Online and Offline Measurement of Exhaled Lower Respiratory Nitric Oxide and Nasal Nitric Oxide, 2005

  · 2005 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2,954 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (an Update) and Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis in Adults: An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline

  Ganesh Raghu, Martine Remy-Jardin, Luca Richeldi · 2022 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2,925 citations

• Syndrome of Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema: An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Research Statement

  Vincent Cottin, Moises Selman, Yoshikazu Inoue · 2022 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 214 citations

• Update of the International Multidisciplinary Classification of the Interstitial Pneumonias: An ERS/ATS Statement

  Christopher J. Ryerson, Ayodeji Adegunsoye, Sara Piciucchi · 2025 · European Respiratory Journal · 182 citations

• Updates on the Treatment of Drug-Susceptible and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: An Official ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline

  Jussi J. Saukkonen, Raquel Duarte, Sonal S. Munsiff · 2025 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 176 citations

• Palliative Care Early in the Care Continuum among Patients with Serious Respiratory Illness: An Official ATS/AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN Policy Statement

  Donald R. Sullivan, Anand S. Iyer, Susan Enguidanos · 2022 · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 132 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WilsonMark Twain · 1758
• Como agua para chocolateLaura Esquivel · 1989
• The Star RoverJack London · 1915
• IslandAldous Huxley · 1962
• GrimusSalman Rushdie · 1975
• Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea DisastersLogan Marshall, Logan Marshall · 1912
• The Silver Eyes (Five Nights At Freddy's #1)Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley · 2001
• SAS Survival HandbookJohn Wiseman · 1986

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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