- Title
- Clinical assessment of speech correlates well with lung function during induced bronchoconstriction
- Creator
- Tayler, Nicholas; Grainge, Christopher; Gove, Kerry; Howarth, Peter; Holloway, Judith
- Relation
- npj: Primary Care Respiratory Medicine Vol. 25
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npjpcrm.2015.6
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Clinical assessment of asthma often includes a crude assessment of speech, for example whether the patient can speak in full sentences. To date, this statement, despite appearing in national asthma guidelines, has not been related to lung function testing in asthma exacerbation. Seven asthmatics underwent a bronchial challenge and were then recorded reading a standardised text for 1 min. The recordings were played to 88 healthcare professionals who were asked to estimate FEV₁% predicted. Health care professionals' estimations showed moderate correlation to FEV₁% predicted (rho = 0.61 Po0.01). There were no significant differences between professionals grouped by seniority or speciality. Speech can intuitively be estimated by health care professionals with moderate accuracy. This gives an evidence basis for the assessment in speech in acute asthma and may provide a new avenue for monitoring.
- Subject
- clinical assessment; speech; lung function; bronchoconstriction
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1336140
- Identifier
- uon:27558
- Identifier
- ISSN:2055-1010
- Rights
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Language
- eng
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