Burden and impact of chronic cough in UK primary care: a dataset analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Chronic cough (CC) is a debilitating respiratory symptom, now increasingly recognised as a discrete disease entity. This study evaluated the burden of CC in a primary care setting.

Design

Cross-sectional, retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Discover dataset from North West London, which links coded data from primary and secondary care. The index date depicted CC persisting for ≥8 weeks and was taken as a surrogate for date of CC diagnosis.

Participants

Data were extracted for individuals aged ≥18 years with a cough persisting ≥8 weeks or cough remedy prescription, between Jan 2015 and Sep 2019.

Main outcome measures

Demographic characteristics, comorbidities and service utilisation cost, including investigations performed and treatments prescri

SUBMITTER: Hull JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8685971 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature