BACKGROUND Since the 1998 European Respiratory Society (ERS) lower respiratory tract
infection (LRTI) guidelines 1 were published, the evidence on which they were based has …

Objectives: To review relevant literature and present evidence-based guidelines to assist
general and specialist medical practitioners in the evaluation and management of children …

Community-based surveys show that parentalreported cough as an isolated symptom has a
high prevalence. 2 3 Reported cough without colds has a prevalence of 28% in boys and …

Cough remains a serious unmet clinical problem, both as a symptom of a range of other
conditions such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, gastroesophageal reflux …

The aetiology and management approach for cough in children differs greatly to that in
adults, so the empirical approach commonly used in adults is unsuitable for children.• …

Worldwide paediatricians advocate that children should be managed differently from adults.
In this article, similarities and differences between children and adults related to cough are …

Background We endeavoured to accumulate and evaluate the available evidence regarding
therapies that have been investigated as potential adjuncts to antimicrobials for the …

Pediatric cough-related issues, like most other conditions in particularly young children,
share similarities but also have substantial important differences with adults. These can be …

Die Literaturrecherche wurde vom federführenden Autor in Pub-Med und in The Cochrane
Library durchgeführt.„Cough “als keyword und/oder als Bestandteil des Titels wurde …

BACKGROUND: Although the overuse of antibiotics and underuse of bronchodilators for
treatment of acute bronchitis is well known, few studies have analyzed these trends in the …