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Nighttime Cough Characteristics in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients (2025)
Journal Article
den Brinker, A. C., Ouweltjes, O., Rietman, R., Thackray-Nocera, S., Crooks, M. G., & Morice, A. H. (2025). Nighttime Cough Characteristics in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients. Sensors, 25(2), Article 404. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25020404

Coughing is a symptom of many respiratory diseases. An increased amount of coughs may signal an (upcoming) health issue, while a decreasing amount of coughs may indicate an improved health status. The presence of a cough can be identified by a cough... Read More about Nighttime Cough Characteristics in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients.

Can Passive Cough Monitoring Predict COPD Exacerbations? (2025)
Journal Article
Morice, A. H., den Brinker, A. C., Crooks, M., Thackray-Nocera, S., Ouweltjes, O., & Rietman, R. (2025). Can Passive Cough Monitoring Predict COPD Exacerbations?. COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 22(1), Article 2487909. https://doi.org/10.1080/15412555.2025.2487909

Purpose: Validation of an alert mechanism for COPD exacerbations based on coughing detected by a stationary unobtrusive nighttime monitor. Methods: This prospective double-blind longitudinal study of cough monitoring included 40 chronic obstructive p... Read More about Can Passive Cough Monitoring Predict COPD Exacerbations?.

Correction to: Reducing short-acting beta-agonist use in asthma: Impact of national incentives on prescribing practices in England and the findings from SENTINEL Plus early adopter sites (npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, (2024), 34, 1, (6), 10.1038/s41533-024-00363-0) (2024)
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Crooks, M. G., Cummings, H., Morice, A. H., Sykes, D., Brooks, S., Jackson, A., & Xu, Y. (2024). Correction to: Reducing short-acting beta-agonist use in asthma: Impact of national incentives on prescribing practices in England and the findings from SENTINEL Plus early adopter sites (npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, (2024), 34, 1, (6), 10.1038/s41533-024-00363-0). NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 34(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-024-00376-9

Correction to: npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine34, 6 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-024-00363-0, published online 29 April 2024 In this article the Table 2 columns were incorrectly structured. The original article has been corrected.

The Effect of Long-Term Azithromycin on Objective and Subjective Cough in Chronic Respiratory Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials and Noncomparative Studies (2024)
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Sykes, D. L., Mason, P., Rahunathan, N., Hart, S. P., Morice, A. H., & Crooks, M. G. (2024). The Effect of Long-Term Azithromycin on Objective and Subjective Cough in Chronic Respiratory Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials and Noncomparative Studies. Lung, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-024-00729-8

Introduction: Azithromycin is an effective treatment for various respiratory conditions but its effect on cough is poorly understood. We synthesised data from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and noncomparative studies (NCT) examining its effect o... Read More about The Effect of Long-Term Azithromycin on Objective and Subjective Cough in Chronic Respiratory Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials and Noncomparative Studies.

Improving asthma care through implementation of the SENTINEL programme: findings from the pilot site (2023)
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Crooks, M. G., Crowther, L., Cummings, H., Cohen, J., Huang, C., Pitel, L., Pearson, M., Morice, A., Turgoose, J., Faruqi, S., Watt, M., Morris, T., & Xu, Y. (2023). Improving asthma care through implementation of the SENTINEL programme: findings from the pilot site. ERJ Open Research, 9(3), Article 00685-2022. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00685-2022

Aim: Short-acting β2-agonist (SABA) overuse adversely impacts asthma-related outcomes and the environment. The SABA rEductioN Through ImplemeNting Hull asthma guidELines (SENTINEL) programme aims to reduce SABA overuse through supported implementatio... Read More about Improving asthma care through implementation of the SENTINEL programme: findings from the pilot site.

Investigating the diagnostic utility of high-resolution oesophageal manometry in patients with refractory respiratory symptoms (2022)
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Sykes, D. L., Crooks, M. G., Hart, S. P., Jackson, W., Gallagher, J., & Morice, A. H. (2022). Investigating the diagnostic utility of high-resolution oesophageal manometry in patients with refractory respiratory symptoms. Respiratory medicine, 202, Article 106985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2022.106985

Background: The interaction between the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems, and the role of the latter in the development of respiratory pathology, has been examined with a focus on gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). However, little data... Read More about Investigating the diagnostic utility of high-resolution oesophageal manometry in patients with refractory respiratory symptoms.

Domiciliary Cough Monitoring for the Prediction of COPD Exacerbations (2021)
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Crooks, M. G., den Brinker, A. C., Thackray-Nocera, S., van Dinther, R., Wright, C. E., & Morice, A. H. (2021). Domiciliary Cough Monitoring for the Prediction of COPD Exacerbations. Lung, 199(2), 131-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-021-00435-9

Introduction: Acute exacerbations of COPD (AE-COPD) are a leading cause of health service utilisation and are associated with morbidity and mortality. Identifying the prodrome of AE-COPD by monitoring symptoms and physiological parameters (telemonito... Read More about Domiciliary Cough Monitoring for the Prediction of COPD Exacerbations.

Post-COVID-19 Symptom Burden: What is Long-COVID and How Should We Manage It? (2021)
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Sykes, D. L., Holdsworth, L., Jawad, N., Gunasekera, P., Morice, A. H., & Crooks, M. G. (2021). Post-COVID-19 Symptom Burden: What is Long-COVID and How Should We Manage It?. Lung, 199(2), 113-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-021-00423-z

© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature. The enduring impact of COVID-19 on patients has been examined in recent studies, leading to the description of Long-COVID. We report the l... Read More about Post-COVID-19 Symptom Burden: What is Long-COVID and How Should We Manage It?.

Azithromycin for sarcoidosis cough: an open label exploratory clinical trial (2020)
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Fraser, S. D., Thackray-Nocera, S., Shepherd, M., Flockton, R., Wright, C., Sheedy, W., Brindle, K., Morice, A. H., Kaye, P. M., Crooks, M. G., & Hart, S. P. (2020). Azithromycin for sarcoidosis cough: an open label exploratory clinical trial. ERJ Open Research, 6(4), Article 00534. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00534-2020

Background: Chronic cough is a distressing symptom for many people with pulmonary sarcoidosis. Continuous treatment with a macrolide antibiotic may improve cough. We aimed to assess the potential efficacy of azithromycin in patients with sarcoidosis... Read More about Azithromycin for sarcoidosis cough: an open label exploratory clinical trial.

Alert system design based on experimental findings from long-term unobtrusive monitoring in COPD (2020)
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den Brinker, A. C., van Dinther, R., Crooks, M. G., Thackray-Nocera, S., & Morice, A. H. (2021). Alert system design based on experimental findings from long-term unobtrusive monitoring in COPD. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 63, Article 102205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2020.102205

An observational study using a cough count monitor was executed in the home of 30 patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The monitoring system was unobtrusive, allowing long-term monitoring. This paper illustrates the cough count... Read More about Alert system design based on experimental findings from long-term unobtrusive monitoring in COPD.