Monitoring chronic cough: Current and future techniques

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 673-683

  Smith, Jaclyn ^a  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acoustics; anti tussives; chronic cough; cough monitoring; cough reflex; cough sounds

Indexed keywords

ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; CODEINE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; PLACEBO;

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECORDING; REVIEW;

EID: 77957993099     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.10.63     Document Type: Review

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