Children with chronic cough: When is watchful waiting appropriate? Development of likelihood ratios for assessing children with chronic cough

Chest

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 745-753

  Chang, Anne B ^a,b   Van Asperen, Peter P ^c,e   Glasgow, Nicholas ^f   Robertson, Colin F ^g   Mellis, Craig M ^d   Masters, I Brent ^b   Landau, Louis I ^h   Teoh, Laurel ^a,i   Tjhung, Irene ^a,j   Petsky, Helen L ^b   Morris, Peter S ^a  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f The Australian National University   (Australia)

^g ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

ⁱ CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^j Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula Area Health Service District   (Australia)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC COUGH; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WATCHFUL WAITING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COUGH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIROMETRY; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84924907769     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.14-2155     Document Type: Article

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