ArticleLung2021
Children's Acute Cough-Specific Quality of Life: Revalidation and Development of a Short Form.
Article in Lung, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Quality of patient-reported outcome measures for acute bronchitis: a systematic review of instruments and measurement properties.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2025Pooled it
- Honey for acute cough in children - a systematic review.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Pooled it
- Development and validation of a parent-proxy bronchiectasis child quality-of-life instrument: the BC-QoL.ERJ open research · 2026Article
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- Reliability and validity analysis of the Chinese version of the acute cough-specific quality-of-life questionnaire in children hospitalized for acute cough.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Cough hypersensitivity and chronic cough.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2022Review
- LUNG Year in Review: 2021.Lung · 2022Article
- Process of diagnosis and treatment of chronic cough in children at primary hospitals.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
purposeAcute cough in children has a significant impact on the child and family. Relevant quality of life (QoL) instruments are essential for high-quality clinical research. This study aimed to (1) revalidate the 16-item Parent-proxy Children's Acute Cough-specific QoL questionnaire (PAC-QoL
methodsThree datasets from two sources were utilized, comprising of 332 children with acute cough (< 2 weeks duration); the first dataset (n = 83, 54 boys; median age 2.04 years, IQR 1.08-4.06 years) was used for revalidation, the second dataset (n = 238, 141 boys; median age 2.17 years, IQR 1.21-4.21 years) was used to develop the short form, and the third dataset (n = 94, 62 boys; median age, 1.75 years, IQR 0.90-3.63 years) was used to confirm the short form. Psychometric properties were investigated.
resultsSix items were found to account for 96.4% of the variance in the PAC-QoL
conclusionBoth the PAC-QoL
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