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: Prevalence of psychomorbidity among patients with chronic cough. | Cough BioMed Central Research Open Access Prevalence of psychomorbidity among patients with chronic cough Lorcan PA McGarvey 1 Carol Carton2 Lucy A Gamble2 Liam G Heaney1 Richard Shepherd1 Madeline Ennis3 and Joseph MacMahon1 Address Department of Respiratory Medicine Belfast City Hospital N. Ireland UK 2Department of Clinical Psychology Belfast City Hospital N. Ireland UK and 3Department of Clinical Biochemistry The Queen s University of Belfast N. Ireland UK Email Lorcan PA McGarvey - Carol Carton - Lucy A Gamble - Liam G Heaney - Richard Shepherd - Madeline Ennis - Joseph MacMahon - Corresponding author Published 16 June 2006 Received 24 March 2006 Accepted 16 lune 2006 Cough 2006 2 4 doi 1745-9974-2-4 p This article is available from http content 2 l 4 2006 McGarvey 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 Chronic cough may cause significant emotional distress and although patients are not routinely assessed for co-existent psychomorbidity a cough that is refractory to any treatment is sometimes suspected to be functional in origin. It is not known if patients with chronic cough referred for specialist evaluation have emotional impairment but failure to recognise this may influence treatment outcomes. In this cross-sectional study levels of psychomorbidity were measured in patients referred to a specialist cough clinic. Methods Fifty-seven patients 40 female mean age years referred for specialist evaluation of chronic cough mean cough duration months completed the Hospital Anxiety and
