ASSESSING COUGH SYMPTOM SEVERITY IN REFRACTORY OR UNEXPLAINED CHRONIC COUGH: FINDINGS FROM PATIENT FOCUS GROUPS AND AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERT PANEL

Assessing cough symptom severity in refractory or unexplained chronic cough: findings from patient focus groups and an international expert panel

Background Cough symptom severity represents an important subjective end-point to assess the impact of therapies for patients with refractory or unexplained chronic cough (RCC/UCC).As existing instruments assessing the severity of Scalp Care cough are neither widely available nor tested for measurement properties, we aim to develop a new patient-re

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Good-bye Scydmaenidae, or why the ant-like stone beetles should become megadiverse Staphylinidae sensu latissimo (Coleoptera)

Ant-like stone beetles (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae) include more than 4,850 described species in about 90 genera maintained as a separate cosmopolitan family since 1815.Recent authors have PS4 hypothesised that Scydmaenidae might be rooted deep inside rove-beetles (Staphylinidae).To test this hypothesis we analysed 206 parsimoniously informative larv

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