A new simple score of chronic cough: cough evaluation test

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 7 Spearman rank correlations between different health outcome measures after treatment (N = 100)

	CET	VAS	LCQ-MC	CSS Total	CSS daytime	CSS nighttime
CET		0.87*^#	−0.85*^&	0.75*	0.78*	0.49*
VAS	0.87*^#		−0.76	0.78*	0.82*	0.45*
LCQ-MC	−0.85*^&	−0.76*		−0.76*	− 0.72*	−0.56*
CSS Total	0.75*	0.78*	−0.76*		0.84*	0.78*
CSS daytime	0.78*	0.82*	−0.72*	0.84*		0.37*
CSS nighttime	0.49*	0.45*	−0.56*	0.78*	0.37*

* P < 0.0001
# correlation between CET and VAS versus correlation between VAS and LCQ-MS or correlation between VAS and CSS total/nighttime (P < 0.0001, P = 0.0082, P < 0.0001, respectively)
& correlation between CET and LCQ-MC versus correlation between VAS and LCQ-MS or correlation between LCQ-MS and CSS total/daytime/nighttime (P = 0.0015, P = 0.0145, P = 0.0004, P < 0.0001, respectively)

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