ArticleArchives of disease in childhood2001
Survey of respiratory sounds in infants.
Article in Archives of disease in childhood, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 151 citations in OpenAlex.
- Wheeze as an adverse event in pediatric vaccine and drug randomized controlled trials: A systematic review.Vaccine · 2015Pooled it
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- Improving the management and outcomes of preschool wheeze: protocol of a prospective multicentre cohort study.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Article
- Evaluating Severe Therapy-Resistant Asthma in Children: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
- Development of the gut microbiota during early life in premature and term infants.Gut pathogens · 2023Article
- Precision Medicine and Childhood Asthma: A Guide for the Unwary.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Review
- Challenging the paradigm: moving from umbrella labels to treatable traits in airway disease.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2021Review
- Preschool Wheezing and Gastro-Esophageal Reflux: --Causal or Casual Coincidence? Update from Literature.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Time to Say Goodbye to Bronchiolitis, Viral Wheeze, Reactive Airways Disease, Wheeze Bronchitis and All That.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Review
- 'Dry' and 'wet' cough: how reliable is parental reporting?BMJ open respiratory research · 2019Article
- Parents are poor at labelling wheeze in children: a cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2016Article
- A Hospital Based Study to Establish the Correlation between Recurrent Wheeze and Vitamin D Deficiency Among Children of Age Group Less than 3 Years in Indian Scenario.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2016Article
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- Recurrent wheeze and cough in young children: is it asthma?Singapore medical journal · 2014Article
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- Long-term management of asthma in First Nations and Inuit children: A knowledge translation tool based on Canadian paediatric asthma guidelines, intended for use by front-line health care professionals working in isolated communities.Paediatrics & child health · 2012Article
- Managing wheeze in preschool children: How difficult can it be?Sudanese journal of paediatrics · 2012Review
- The multiple meanings of "wheezing": a questionnaire survey in Portuguese for parents and health professionals.BMC pediatrics · 2011Article
- The management of pre-school wheeze.Paediatric respiratory reviews · 2011Review
- An approach to preschool wheezing: to label as asthma?The World Allergy Organization journal · 2010Article
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Abstract
backgroundOver the last decade there has been an apparent increase in childhood wheeze. We speculated that much of the reported increase may be attributed to the term wheeze being adopted by parents to describe a variety of other forms of noisy breathing.
aimsTo investigate terminology used by parents to describe their children's breath sounds.
methodsAn interview was carried out with the parents of 92 infants with noisy breathing, beginning with an open question and then directed towards a more detailed description. Finally, the parents were asked to choose from a wheeze, ruttle, and stridor on imitation by the investigator and video clips of children.
resultsWheeze was the most commonly chosen word on initial questioning (59%). Only 36% were still using this term at the end of the interview, representing a decrease of one third, whereas the use of the word ruttles doubled.
conclusionsOur results reflect the degree of inaccuracy involved in the use of the term wheeze in clinical practice, which may be leading to over diagnosis. Imprecise use of this term has potentially important implications for therapy and clinical trials.
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