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: Evaluation of an ambulatory system for the quantification of cough frequency in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. | Cough BioMed Central Methodology Open Access Evaluation of an ambulatory system for the quantification of cough frequency in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Michael A Coyle 1 Desmond B Keenan2 Linda S Henderson3 Michael L Watkins3 Brett K Haumann4 David W Mayleben5 and Michael G Wilson6 Address Physiology Program Harvard School of Public Health Boston MA USA 2VivoMetrics Inc. Ventura CA USA 3GlaxoSmithKline Respiratory and Inflammation Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery Research Triangle Park NC USA 4GlaxoSmithKline Respiratory and Inflammation Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery Stevenage UK 5Community Research Inc. Cincinnati OH USA and 6Department of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis IN USA Email Michael A Coyle - mcoyle@ Desmond B Keenan - barry2312002@ Linda S Henderson - Michael L Watkins - Brett K Haumann - David W Mayleben - dmayleben@ Michael G Wilson - Corresponding author Published 04 August 2005 Received 25 April 2005 Cough 2005 1 3 doi 1745-9974-1-3 Accepted 04 August 2005 This article is available from http content 1 1 3 2005 Coyle et al 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 Background To date methods used to assess cough have been primarily subjective and only broadly reflect the impact of chronic cough and or chronic cough therapies on quality of life. Objective assessment of cough has been attempted but early techniques were neither ambulatory nor feasible for long-term data collection. We evaluated a novel ambulatory cardio-respiratory monitoring system with an
