Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Cough: meeting the needs of a growing field. | Cough BioMed Central Editorial Cough meeting the needs of a growing field Rubaiyat A Haque and Kian Fan Chung Address Airways Disease Section National Heart Lung Institute Imperial College London UK Email Rubaiyat A Haque - Kian Fan Chung - Corresponding author Open Access Published 04 August 2005 Received 08 July 2005 Cough 2005 1 1 doi 1745-9974-1-1 Accepted 04 August 2005 This article is available from http content 1 1 1 2005 Haque and Chung licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract There has been a rapidly increasing volume of research undertaken in the field of acute and chronic cough at both basic scientific and clinical levels. However until now there has been no journal dedicated to publishing work in this field. In this editorial we introduce the new online open-access journal entitled Cough which has been founded specifically for this purpose. We also review the clinical problems posed by acute and chronic cough and highlight some of the current issues that are being tackled by cough researchers. A new journal for a modern era Between 2000 and 2004 the number of PubMed entries per year containing the keyword cough has increased by forty percent. This partially reflects a general increase in the number of scientific publications over this period but it also represents a specific growth in interest in cough-related research. This interest spans a number of medical and scientific disciplines other than respiratory medicine such as gastroenterology rhinology paediatrics infectious disease pharmacology neurology neuroanatomy genetics inflammation etc. The need for a single journal that brings together clinicians and scientists in
