Assessment of gender differences in health status with the Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ)

Thorax

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1008-1009

  Birring, S S ^a   Pavord, I D ^b  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COUGHING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEICESTER COUGH QUESTIONNAIRE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 72549105743     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2009.119776     Document Type: Article

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