TY - JOUR T1 - Progressive respiratory disease: the importance of prognostic conversations and advance care planning JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 269 LP - 273 DO - 10.1183/20734735.012917 VL - 13 IS - 4 AU - D. Robin Taylor Y1 - 2017/12/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/13/4/269.abstract N2 - The “curative medical model” dominates medical decision-making, but in patients with advanced lung disease it can be redundant and even harmful. Clinicians are reluctant to abandon the traditional approach. However, a steady sea-change is under way not just for potentially life-limiting respiratory disease but also for other long-term conditions, such as heart failure. The sea-change is welcome, but it has been slow in coming for reasons that are complex and entrenched.Prognostic conversations and advance care planning facilitate improved care in life-limiting respiratory conditions http://ow.ly/MOtp30fqPOw ER -