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GuidelineChest2014

Overview of the management of cough: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report.

Richard S Irwin, Cynthia T French, Sandra Zelman Lewis, Rebecca L Diekemper, Philip M Gold, CHEST Expert Cough Panel

Abstract readPractice Guideline
In one paragraph

Guideline in Chest, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
39citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Chronic cough: more than just a persistent cough: a systematic literature review to understand the impact of chronic cough on quality of life.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024
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  4. Antibiotics for prolonged wet cough in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
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  7. [Chronic cough and otorhinolaryngology in children].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2025
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  16. Herbal MedicineInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  20. Chronic cough: new insights and future prospects.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Richard S IrwinDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA. Electronic address: Richard.Irwin@umassmemorial.org.
Cynthia T FrenchDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA.
Sandra Zelman LewisCHEST, Glenview, IL.
Rebecca L DiekemperCHEST, Glenview, IL.
Philip M GoldLoma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA.
CHEST Expert Cough Panel

Funding

Central Mechanisms of Airway ProtectionR01HL103415 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI BOLSER, DONALD C, DAVENPORT, PAUL W · 2010 to 2013
$2.2M
Medical Research Council G0701918
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This overview will demonstrate that cough is a common and potentially expensive health-care problem. Improvement in the quality of care of those with cough has been the focus of study for a variety of disciplines in medicine. The purpose of the Cough Guideline and Expert Panel is to synthesize current knowledge in a form that will aid clinical decision-making for the diagnosis and management of cough across disciplines and also identify gaps in knowledge and treatment options.

Indexed as

CoughDisease ManagementEvidence-Based MedicineHumans

Identifiers

PMID25080295
PMCPMC4694189

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