The utility of remote cough monitoring in COPD

Background: Telehealth has been advocated as a way to monitor patients with COPD to anticipate exacerbations and allow early therapeutic intervention. We have investigated whether automatic cough counting over a 45 day period following an acute exacerbation can be used as an objective measure of wellbeing and compared this with home FEV1 measurement. null Method: The Hull Automated Cough Counter (HACC) was used to measure the cough frequency...