Chronic cough: How do cough reflex sensitivity and subjective assessments correlate with objective cough counts during ambulatory monitoring?

Thorax

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 329-334

  Decalmer, Samantha Clare ^a,b   Webster, Deborah ^b   Kelsall, Angela Alice ^b   McGuinness, Kevin ^b   Woodcock, Ashley Arthur ^b   Smith, Jaclyn Ann ^b  

^a WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CITRIC ACID; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFLEX;

EID: 34147215288     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2006.067413     Document Type: Article

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