作者
Elena Kum, Gordon H Guyatt, Caroline Munoz, Suzanne Beaudin, Shelly-Anne Li, Rayid Abdulqawi, Huda Badri, Louis-Philippe Boulet, Ruchong Chen, Peter Dicpinigaitis, Lieven Dupont, Stephen K Field, Cynthia L French, Peter G Gibson, Richard S Irwin, Paul Marsden, Lorcan McGarvey, Jaclyn A Smith, Woo-Jung Song, Paul M O'Byrne, Imran Satia
发表日期
2022/1/1
期刊
ERJ Open Research
卷号
8
期号
1
出版商
European Respiratory Society
简介
Background
Cough symptom severity represents an important subjective end-point to assess the impact of therapies for patients with refractory or unexplained chronic cough (RCC/UCC). As existing instruments assessing the severity of cough are neither widely available nor tested for measurement properties, we aim to develop a new patient-reported outcome measure addressing cough severity.
Objective
The aim of this study was to establish items and domains that would inform development of a new cough severity instrument.
Methods
Three focus groups involving 16 adult patients with RCC/UCC provided data that we analysed using directed content analysis. Discussions led to consensus among an international panel of 15 experts on candidate items and domains to assess cough severity.
Results
The patient focus group provided 48 unique items arranged under broad domains of urge-to-cough sensations and …
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