Chronic cough with a history of excessive sputum production: the spectrum and frequency of causes, key components of the diagnostic evaluation, and outcome of specific therapy.
With a chain of progressively larger circles, it illustrated the relative frequency of causes of death among Australians, from the vanishingly rare (war, pregnancy and birth, murder) to the extremely common (respiratory disorders, cancer, heart disease).
Irwin RS, Corrao WM, Pratter MR. Chronic persistent cough in the adult: the spectrum and frequency of causes and successful outcome of specific therapy.
Chronic persistent cough: local expertise in diagnosis using the anatomic and diagnostic protocol, spectrum and frequency of causes and outcome of specific treatment.
To assess the frequency of, causes for, and factors associated with acute rehospitalization during 9 months after discharge from inpatient rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury (TBI).
However, they distort the overall frequency of causes of headaches in our review eg pituitary apoplexy was not reported in the major cohorts.
**If we count all vasoconstriction syndromes as one single cause, then the value of this cell in 45, but the number of unobserved cases would still be close to 3. The frequency of causes depended on the type of study performed (Table 3).
This study's principal aim was to test the efficacy of a diagnostic protocol, which could be used in general practice, rather than to describe the frequency of causes of chronic cough.
In light of the strong influence of data collection method on our findings, we did not attempt to infer meaning from the frequency of causes reported across included papers, as this may be misleading.
