Cough suppression therapy: Does it work?

Pulmonary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 524-527

  Chamberlain, Sarah ^a   Garrod, Rachel ^a   Birring, Surinder S ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic cough; Cough suppression; Idiopathic chronic cough; Physiotherapy; Refractory chronic cough; Speech and language therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING EXERCISE; CHRONIC COUGH; COUGH SUPPRESSION THERAPY; DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CHRONIC COUGH; COUGH SUPPRESSION; IDIOPATHIC CHRONIC COUGH; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REFRACTORY CHRONIC COUGH; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY;

AMBULATORY CARE; BREATHING EXERCISES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGH; COUNSELING; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPEECH THERAPY; SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY;

EID: 84882725785     PISSN: 10945539     EISSN: 15229629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pupt.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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