Development of a symptom specific health status measure for patients with chronic cough: Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ)

Thorax

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 339-343

  Birring, S S ^a   Prudon, B ^a   Carr, A J ^b   Singh, S J ^a   Morgan, L ^a   Pavord, I D ^a  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEICESTER COUGH QUESTIONNAIRE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0037383035     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.58.4.339     Document Type: Article

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