TY - JOUR T1 - HERMES European Accreditation of Training Centres in Adult Respiratory Medicine: criteria validation and revision JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 11 LP - 17 DO - 10.1183/20734735.000116 VL - 12 IS - 1 AU - Sandy Sutter AU - Daiana Stolz AU - Ortrud Karg AU - Sharon Mitchell AU - Alexandra Niculescu AU - Julie-Lyn Noël AU - Pippa Powell AU - Szymon Skoczyński AU - Johan Verbraecken AU - Gernot Rohde Y1 - 2016/03/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/12/1/11.abstract N2 - Four respiratory medicine disease categories appear in the global top 10 causes of mortality [1], resulting in 600 000 people dying from respiratory disease in Europe each year. The economic burden of respiratory diseases in Europe exceeds 380 billion euros. In a fast-developing environment, new clinical challenges have arisen for pulmonary specialists; techniques and procedures have evolved and become more complex.We wish to thank the following consulting medical educationalists for their valuable feed-back and input on the revised accreditation criteria document:E. Driessen, G. PeeraerThe following experts took part in the criteria validation survey:D. Bumbacea, L. Casali, I. Chkhaidze, M. Flezar, B. Grigoriu, T. Harju, O. Karg, K. Kostikas, L. Laursen, V. Müller, V. Petrovic, N. Rakusic, F. Rodiguez de Castro, S. Sandweg, C. Sanguinetti, S. Skoczynski, I. Solovic, D. Stolz, J. Verbraecken and M. Zolubas.The following experts wrote the original Accreditation Criteria document:R. Loddenkemper, T. Séverin, S. Mitchell, A. Belevskiy, A. Chuchalin, S. de Hosson, G. Di Maria, S. Hartl, I. Horvath, C. Leroyer, J–L. Noel, B. Nybo, G. Phillips, R. Stevenson, M. Zach and P. Palange.The following experts participated as national respondents for the original Accreditation Criteria document:A. Altraja (Estonia), L. Chovan (Slovakia), R. Costello (Ireland), E. Danila (Lithuania), L. Delaunois (Belgium), M. Gaga (Greece), L. Hansson (Sweden), P. Hesse (Austria), Y. Ivanov (Bulgaria), L. Joos (Switzerland), D. Keser (­Bosnia-Herzegovina), V. Kinnula (Finland), A. Kocabas (Turkey), M. Kosnik (Slovenia), J. Kozielski (Poland), A. Krams (Latvia), L. Laursen (Denmark), J. Lorenz (Germany), F. Mihaltan (Romania), V. Petrovic (Serbia & Montenegro), N. Rakusic (­Croatia), F. Rodriguez De Castro (Spain), R. Rosin (Sweden), F. Smeenk (Netherlands), R. Sotto-Mayor De ­Azevedo e Castro (Portugal), M. Tamm (Switzerland), T. Tollali (Norway) and P. Zatloukal (Czech Republic). ER -