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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2006;295:746-747.

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Health care workers can now draw from more than 200 new recommendations from evidence-based guidelines for diagnosing and managing acute, subacute, and chronic cough thanks to a new document published by the American College of Chest Physicians. Diagnosis and Management of Cough: Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines provides recommendations for identifying and treating everything from the common cold to chronic lung conditions (Irwin RS et al. Chest. 2006;129(suppl):1S-292S).

"If physicians follow these guidelines—no matter whether the patient has an acute, a subacute, or a chronic cough—they’ve got a 90% chance of coming up with the specific cause of cough and being able to give specific treatments that will be successful," said Richard Irwin, MD, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Worcester, and chair of the expert panel that wrote the guidelines.

New guidelines give advice on diagnosing and managing various types of cough. (Photo credit: . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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