Publications in English

As a German medical society, we publish our guidelines, medical statements and position papers primarily in German. To make them more accessible, we have recently translated selected publications. Furthermore, we recommend selected articles on our guidelines in English.

The DGP coordinates more than 30 medical guidelines and contributes to several others. 

S2k guideline
Diagnosis and Assessment of Lung Disease Caused by Occupational Silica Dust Exposure (Silicosis)
A. M. Preisser et al., Respiration (2026), doi: 10.1159/000553350

S3 guideline
Follow-Up Care After Adult Lung Transplantation: Summary of an Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for German-Speaking Countries
J. Gottlieb et al. Respiration (2026), doi: 10.1159/000553086

S2k guideline
Management of Adult Bronchiectasis
F. C. Ringshausen et al., Respiration (2026), doi: 10.1159/000551643

S2k guideline
Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (EEA)
D. Koschel et al., Respiration (2025) 104 (7): 485–528., doi: 10.1159/000543675

S3 guideline
German National Guideline for Treating Chronic Respiratory Failure with Non-Invasive Ventilation
S. Stanzel et al., Respiration (2025), doi: 10.1159/000546843, translation of July 2024 guideline, AWMF 020-008.

S2k guideline
Pharmacological treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (update) and progressive pulmonary fibroses
J. Behr et al., Respiration 2025, 1–29, doi: 10.1159/000540856, translation of July 2022 update, AWMF 020-025.

Article
Key summary of German national guideline for adult patients with nosocomial pneumonia- Update 2024
J. Rademacher, S. Ewig, M.W. Pletz et al. published online in “Infection”, August 8, 2024.
The full-length update of the guideline and evidence report published in March 2024 are available in German language, AWMF 020-013.

S2k guideline
Climate-conscious prescription of inhaled medication – with a short implementation guide
G. Schmiemann, M. Dörks, C. Grah. 2024, translation of January 2024 DEGAM/DGP guideline, AWMF 053-059.

Amendment
Treatment of MDR, Pre-XDR, XDR, and Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis or in Case of Intolerance to at Least Rifampicin in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
R. Otto-Knapp, T. Bauer et al., Respiration 2024, 29(1): 593–600, doi: 10.1159/000539410, translation of September 2023 amendment to the S2k guideline Tuberculosis in adult patients, AWMF 020-019.

S3 guideline
Oxygen therapy in the acute treatment of adult patients
J. Gottlieb et al., Respiration (2022) 101 (2): 214–252., doi: 10.1159/000520294, translation of June 2021 update, AWMF 020-021

S2k guideline
Diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
J. Behr, A. Günther, F. Bonella et al., Respiration 2021; 100(3): 238–71, doi: 10.1159/000512315, translation of December 2019 update, AWMF 020-016.

S2k guideline
Prolonged weaning
B. Schönhofer, J. Geiseler, D. Dellweg et al., Respiration 2020; 99(11): 982–1083, doi: 10.1159/000510085. Translation of the July 2019 update, AWMF 020-015.

S3 guideline
Treating chronic respiratory failure with invasive and non-invasive ventilation
W. Windisch, M. Dreher, J. Geiseler et al., Respiration 2018; 96(1): 66-97, doi: 10.1159/000488001, and 96(2): 171-203, doi: 10.1159/000488667, translation of the revised 2017 edition, AWMF 020-008. Note that a fully revised version of the German guideline has been published in July 2024. A translation will be available shortly. 

Prolonged weaning from mechanical ventilation: Results from specialized weaning centers – a registry-based study from the WeanNet initiative
W. Windisch, D. Dellweg, J. Geiseler, M. Westhoff, M. Pfeifer, S. Suchi, B. Schönhofer, Dtsch Arztebl Int 2020; 117(12): 197-204, doi: 10.3238/arztebl.2020.0197.

Pulmonary Medicine during National Socialism
edited by Robert Loddenkemper, Astrid Ley, Nikolaus Konietzko and Vera Seehausen 2019
Abbreviated English edition of our 2018 anthology: Die Lungenheilkunde im Nationalsozialismus.