Background Cough severity represents an important subjective endpoint in assessing the
effectiveness of therapies for patients with chronic cough. Although cough-specific quality of …

Background Cough symptom severity represents an important subjective end-point to
assess the impact of therapies for patients with refractory or unexplained chronic cough …

The clinical and research discipline of cough has grown substantially over the last two
decades as methods to measure cough have developed and evolved. Cough can be …

Objective: Although chronic and subacute cough are clinically problematic and a target of
therapeutic interventions, there are no validated cough severity patient-reported outcome …

Background: Cough is a common symptom for which patients often seek medical advice and
consume vast amounts of drugs. It is a real challenge for both the physician and the clinical …

Objectives/Hypothesis To develop and validate a cough severity index (CSI) which
quantifies patients' symptoms associated with upper airway chronic cough and to provide a …

Chronic cough is a common condition that causes considerable physical and psychological
morbidity. The physical symptoms of cough are readily apparent; however, the psychosocial …

Background In order to assess severity of cough from patients' perspectives and capture the
effects of treatment in clinical trials, a measurement tool must show evidence of validity and …

Chronic cough is a relatively common symptom for which effective, acceptable treatments
are lacking. Many patients suffer frequent coughing over several years without resolution …

Different methods are used for quantifying coughing in sound recordings, but as yet no
method has been shown to be more valid than any other. In the present study, the …