How to quantify coughing: Correlations with quality of life in chronic cough

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 175-179

  Kelsall, A ^a,b,c   Decalmer, S ^a   Webster, D ^a   Brown, N ^a   McGuinness, K ^a,b   Woodcock, A ^a,b   Smith, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulatory cough monitoring; Chronic cough; Cough epochs; Cough seconds; Explosive phases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECORDING; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; SOUND INTENSITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; COUGH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 52749090638     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00101307     Document Type: Article

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