10-Minute consultation: Acute cough in adults

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7745, 2010, Pages 534-

  Cals, Jochen W L ^a   Francis, Nick A ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CODEINE; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; EXPECTORANT AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; MUCOLYTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ASTHMA; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; NAUSEA; PERTUSSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REST; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; COUGH; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 77749308467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c574     Document Type: Short Survey

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