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Somatic Cough Syndrome (Previously Referred to as Psychogenic Cough) and Tic Cough (Previously Referred to as Habit Cough) in Adults and Children: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report.
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- The efficacy and safety of duloxetine in treating refractory chronic cough: a randomized clinical trial.BMC medicine · 2026Trial
- Decoding functional cough in pediatrics: differentiating tic, psychogenic, and compulsive phenotypes for targeted intervention.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Review
- Validity of the Chinese version of the somatic symptom disorder-B criteria scale among patients with chronic cough.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Somatic symptom disorder comorbidity in chronic cough: prevalence, clinical features, and neuroimaging characteristics.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- When Refractory Is Not the End: Redefining Chronic Cough Through Tertiary Center Evaluation.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2026Article
- From Psychogenic Cough to Somatic Cough Syndrome.The clinical respiratory journal · 2026Review
- Integrative Approach to Somatic (Psychogenic) Cough in a Geriatric Female Patient: A Case Study.Cureus · 2025Article
- Diagnosing somatic cough syndrome in a 13-year-old boy.Dusunen adam : Bakirkoy Ruh ve Sinir Hastaliklari Hastanesi yayin organi · 2025Article
- Chronic tic cough in adults: a case report.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Endotypes of Paediatric Cough-Do They Exist and Finding New Techniques to Improve Clinical Outcomes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Tic Cough in an Adolescent with Organic Brain Pathology-A Case Report and Literature Review.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Cough-hypersensitivity Syndrome-A New Paradigm in the Evaluation of Chronic Refractory Cough and Its Novel Therapeutic Horizons-A Review.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2024Review
- Factors influencing behavioral cough suppression therapy in children with nonspecific chronic cough.Pediatric pulmonology · 2023Observational
- Neurobiology of Coughing in Children.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Cough hypersensitivity and chronic cough.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2022Review
- Cough as a neurological sign: What a clinician should know.World journal of critical care medicine · 2022Article
- History Taking as a Diagnostic Tool in Children With Chronic Cough.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
- Chronic cough in Germany: results from a general-population survey.ERJ open research · 2022Article
- When is asthma not guilty?International journal of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2021Review
- Approach to chronic cough in children.Singapore medical journal · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe conducted a systematic review on the management of psychogenic cough, habit cough, and tic cough to update the recommendations and suggestions of the 2006 guideline on this topic.
methodsWe followed the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) methodologic guidelines and the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation framework. The Expert Cough Panel based their recommendations on data from the systematic review, patients' values and preferences, and the clinical context. Final grading was reached by consensus according to Delphi methodology.
resultsThe results of the systematic review revealed only low-quality evidence to support how to define or diagnose psychogenic or habit cough with no validated diagnostic criteria. With respect to treatment, low-quality evidence allowed the committee to only suggest therapy for children believed to have psychogenic cough. Such therapy might consist of nonpharmacologic trials of hypnosis or suggestion therapy, or combinations of reassurance, counseling, and referral to a psychologist, psychotherapy, and appropriate psychotropic medications. Based on multiple resources and contemporary psychologic, psychiatric, and neurologic criteria (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition and tic disorder guidelines), the committee suggests that the terms psychogenic and habit cough are out of date and inaccurate.
conclusionsCompared with the 2006 CHEST Cough Guidelines, the major change in suggestions is that the terms psychogenic and habit cough be abandoned in favor of somatic cough syndrome and tic cough, respectively, even though the evidence to do so at this time is of low quality.
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