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ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory and critical care medicine2024

Cough Severity Visual Analog Scale Assesses Cough Burden and Predicts Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Zhe Wu, David J F Smith, Leda Yazbeck, Peter Saunders, Jaclyn A Smith, Toby M Maher, Philip L Molyneaux

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Article in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Patient-reported outcome measures for cough used in interstitial lung disease: a systematic review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025
    Pooled it
  2. Observational
  3. Article
  4. Cough and dyspnea management in pulmonary fibrosis.Current opinion in supportive and palliative care · 2025
    Review
  5. Cough in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: what is new.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2025
    Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Cough in Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease: Effects and Implications.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024
    Article
  9. 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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhe WuNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
David J F SmithNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Leda YazbeckNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Peter SaundersNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Jaclyn A SmithDivision of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; and.ORCID 0000-0001-8837-4928
Toby M MaherNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7192-9149
Philip L MolyneauxNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1301-8800
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · GBManchester Academic Health Science Centre · GBOxford University Hospitals NHS Trust · GBUniversity of Southern California · US

Funding

Wellcome Investigator Award and is an NIHR Senior InvestigatorWellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoughIdiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisSeverity of Illness IndexAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisVisual Analog Scale

Identifiers

PMID38301238
PMCPMC11092948
OpenAlexW4391425800

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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