The Leicester Cough Monitor: a semi-automated, semi-validated cough detection system?
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The Leicester Cough Monitor: a semi-automated, semi-validated cough detection system?
Objective cough monitoring is an important development in the assessment of cough, but it is technically challenging. It is essential that systems designed to automatically detect cough are carefully validated. The recent study by BIRRING et al. [1] reports ''the validation of the LCM and preliminary findings of 6-and 24-h recordings in patients with chronic cough''. One could be forgiven for i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00052008