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This study examined the clinical course of 168 patients with mild to moderate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Physiologic variables changed minimally, but 21% of patients died. Acute clinical deterioration preceded death in 47% of decedents. Acute deterioration in mild to moderate disease is an ominous sign of the need for referral for lung transplantation.