Impact of Cough Across Different Chronic Respiratory Diseases

Polley, Liam; Yaman, Nurman; Heaney, Liam G.; Cardwell, Christopher; Murtagh, E.; Ramsey, John Byron; MacMahon, J.; Costello, Richard W.; McGarvey, Lorcan

doi:10.1378/chest.07-0141

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“…Ten of them were validation studies concerning cough frequency monitoring in children and/or adults [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]. Seven studies validating cough-specific quality-of-life scores were included [22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29]. …”

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Validated Methods of Cough Assessment: A Systematic Review of the Literature

et al. 2010

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Background: Cough is a common symptom for which patients often seek medical advice and consume vast amounts of drugs. It is a real challenge for both the physician and the clinical researcher to evaluate a cough’s clinical importance and its precise response to treatment. Objectives: This systematic literature review has the following objectives: first, to make an inventory of the validated tools for assessing cough, and second, to investigate the extent to which the results of various assessment methods can be correlated. Methods: Two independent investigators searched the Medline, Embase, and Cochrane databases for validation studies on cough assessment tools. Results: Thirty-four studies were included. Several ambulatory cough monitors automatically identify cough and have been validated in a limited number of patients. Three cough-specific quality-of-life scales (Leicester Cough Questionnaire, Cough Quality of Life Questionnaire, and Burden of Cough Questionnaire) have been validated. No validation studies of descriptive scores or visual analogue scales were found. The correlations between quality-of-life scores and cough frequency were good. The correlations between descriptive scores or visual analogue scales and more objective methods, such as cough frequency monitoring or quality-of-life scores, were inconsistent. Conclusion: Cough-specific quality-of-life questionnaires can provide valid outcomes for research into cough. Although the current developments in cough monitoring devices are promising, further studies on a larger scale, under more realistic conditions, and for different patterns of cough are required before they can be recommended for widespread use.

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“…A Dutch translation has also been validated [22]. The Cough Quality of Life Questionnaire (CQLQ) was developed and validated in English [26,28,29]. One scale has been validated in the parents of children suffering from chronic cough in Australia [27], and 1 scale was developed and validated in Italian [23,24].…”

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Validated Methods of Cough Assessment: A Systematic Review of the Literature

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“…Our patient had been unsuccesfully treated for 18 years (1998-2016) before her cough was significantly reduced due to the speech therapy. Although in most patients CC is a symptom of non-life-threatening disease, it significantly lowers quality of life, in both physical and psychosocial domain [1,5]. In many aspects the decrease of life quality in patients with CC is comparable to that experienced by patients with the chronic obstructive lung disease [1].…”

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“…According to ACCP recommendations, unexplained chronic cough (UCC) is diagnosed in as many as 5-10% of all adults with CC [4]. Persistent CC significantly impairs the quality of life [5].…”

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Speech Therapy—A Non-Pharmacological Method to Manage Difficult-to-treat Chronic Cough

Krakowiak

Dąbrowska

Buła

et al. 2017

Advances in Respiratory Medicine

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Cough is the most common symptom of respiratory diseases. The results of management of chronic cough in adults are still unsatisfactory. Unexplained and difficult-to-treat chronic cough causes significant impairment in patients' quality of life. The results of recent studies suggest that speech therapy (speech language intervention) is one of the few methods which are usefull in management of persistent chronic cough. We present a case of a patient with chronic cough due to chronic nonallergic rhinitis and gastroesophageal reflux disease, who had been unsuccessfully treated for 18 years. In the patient speech therapy resulted in a significant decrease of cough severity and improvement of quality of life.

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“…One additional study was identified by hand-searching the Novartis Pharmaceuticals submission. 60 However, of these, only five studies 111,[124][125][126][127] reported sufficient information through which to directly estimate a utility decrement for specific symptoms (note this figure excludes those studies detailed above which consider report EQ-5D values by FEV 1 % level as discussed above). Undertaking an economic evaluation which attempts to quantify the HRQoL impact of a selection of AEs but ignores others would inevitably result in bias, however the direction of such bias would be unclear.…”

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