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ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2017

Somatic cough syndrome or psychogenic cough-what is the difference?

Anne E Vertigan

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Diagnosis and Treatment of Adult Patients with Cough.Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases · 2025
    Guideline
  2. Pooled it
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  7. From Psychogenic Cough to Somatic Cough Syndrome.The clinical respiratory journal · 2026
    Review
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  12. Cough as a neurological sign: What a clinician should know.World journal of critical care medicine · 2022
    Article
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  14. When is asthma not guilty?International journal of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · 2021
    Review
  15. Article
  16. Managing patients with chronic cough: challenges and solutions.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2018
    Article
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

1 author.

Anne E VertiganSpeech Pathology Department, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The term

Indexed as

Coughdepressionpsychophysiologic disorders

Identifiers

PMID28449492
PMCPMC5394006

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.