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<p>Cough is one of the most common symptoms encountered by clinicians. Attempts to measure cough date back to early 1950s and since then, significant progress has been made in understanding cough and many methods have been developed. Methods for cough measurement can be divided into subjective and objective methods and further according to the aspect of cough they assess. Subjective methods for cough assessment provide us with information about patient’s personal experiences of cough and about psychosocial aspect of cough. Most widely used subjective methods include cough severity visual analogue scale, cough severity diaries, and various quality of life questionnaires. Objective methods for cough assessment focus mainly on cough frequency and on cough reflex sensitivity. Most widely used methods from this group include cough monitors and cough inhalation challenges. This review focuses on the most widely used cough measurement methods and points out their advantages and limitations for use in research and clinical practice. The ability to measure cough in clinical and research conditions could be used to determine treatment outcomes, to test new therapies, and to further study pathophysiology and physiology of cough.</p>
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Cough is one of the most common symptoms encountered by clinicians. Attempts to measure cough date back to early 1950s and since then, significant progress has been made in understanding cough and many methods have been developed. Methods for cough measurement can be divided into subjective and objective methods and further according to the aspect of cough they assess. Subjective methods for cough assessment provide us with information about patient’s personal experiences of cough and about psychosocial aspect of cough. Most widely used subjective methods include cough severity visual analogue scale, cough severity diaries, and various quality of life questionnaires. Objective methods for cough assessment focus mainly on cough frequency and on cough reflex sensitivity. Most widely used methods from this group include cough monitors and cough inhalation challenges. This review focuses on the most widely used cough measurement methods and points out their advantages and limitations for use in research and clinical practice. The ability to measure cough in clinical and research conditions could be used to determine treatment outcomes, to test new therapies, and to further study pathophysiology and physiology of cough.

Methods of Objectifying Cough

Acta Medica Martiniana

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Cough is one of the most common symptoms encountered by clinicians. Attempts to measure cough date back to early 1950s and since then, significant progress has...

Subjective methods for cough measurement
1. Methods assessing cough severity	Visual analogue scale (VAS)
1. Methods assessing cough severity	Cough severity diary (CSD)
2. Quality of life questionnaires	Leicester cough questionnaire (LCQ)
2. Quality of life questionnaires	Cough-specific quality of life questionnaire (CQLQ)

Objective methods for cough measurement
1. Methods assessing cough frequency	A. Manual counting of coughs from sound or video recordings
	B. Cough monitors	Leicester cough monitor (LCM)
	B. Cough monitors	VitaloJak
2. Methods assessing cough reflex sensitivity	A. cough inhalation challenges	Acid tussive agents (citric acid)
	A. cough inhalation challenges	Non-acid tussive agents (capsaicin)
	B. mechanical cough challenges

Methods of Objectifying Cough

Publié en ligne: 20 avr. 2023

Pages: 1 - 7

Reçu: 25 janv. 2023

Accepté: 10 févr. 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acm-2023-0001

Mots clés
Cough, measurement, assessment, methods, tools

© 2023 Miert A. et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The most widely used subjective methods for cough assessment (modified by 7, 15)

The most widely used objective methods for cough assessment (modified by 7,15)

Methods of Objectifying Cough

Publié en ligne: 20 avr. 2023

Pages: 1 - 7

Reçu: 25 janv. 2023

Accepté: 10 févr. 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acm-2023-0001

Mots clésCough, measurement, assessment, methods, tools

© 2023 Miert A. et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The most widely used subjective methods for cough assessment (modified by 7, 15)

The most widely used objective methods for cough assessment (modified by 7,15)

Mots clés
Cough, measurement, assessment, methods, tools