the description of cough sounds by healthcare professionals咳嗽声音的描述由医疗专业人员.pdf

Cough BioMed Central Research Open Access The description of cough sounds by healthcare professionals 1 2 2 1 Jaclyn A Smith* , H Louise Ashurst , Sandy Jack , Ashley A Woodcock and John E Earis2 Address: 1North West Lung Research Centre, South Manchester Hospitals University Trust, Wythenshawe Hospital, Southmoor Rd, Manchester, M16 0DR, UK and 2Aintree Chest Centre, University Hospital Aintree, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool, Merseyside L9 7AL, UK Email: Jaclyn A Smith* - jackyannsmith@; H Louise Ashurst - lollycabbage@; Sandy Jack - sandyjack989@; Ashley A Woodcock - Ashley.A.Woodcock@manchester.ac.uk; John E Earis - j.e.earis@liverpool.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 25 January 2006 Received: 21 September 2005 Accepted: 25 January 2006 Cough2006, 2:1 doi:10.1186/1745-9974-2-1 This article is available from: /content/2/1/1 © 2006Smith et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Little is known of the language healthcare professionals use to describe cough sounds. We aimed to examine how they describe cough sounds and to assess whether these descriptions suggested they ap