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Cough BioMed Central Research Open Access Simultaneous versus video counting of coughs in hypertonic cough challenges Heikki O Koskela*, Minna K Purokivi and Raija M Tukiainen Address: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, P. O. Box 1777, 70211 Kuopio, Finland Email: Heikki O Koskela* - heikki.koskela@kuh.fi; Minna K Purokivi - minna.purokivi@kuh.fi; Raija M Tukiainen - raija.tukiainen@kuh.fi * Corresponding author Published: 9 September 2008 Received: 3 June 2008 Accepted: 9 September 2008 Cough 2008, 4:8 doi:10.1186/1745-9974-4-8 This article is available from: /content/4/1/8 © 2008 Koskela et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The coughs occurring during cough provocation tests are usually counted at the same time when the test is being conducted, i.e., simultaneously. It is unknown whether cough counting from video recording might increase the accuracy of the cough counting. During recent years, cough challenges with hypertonic aerosols have been introduced. They often provoke very frequent coughing which may complicate the simultaneous cough counting. Objective: To assess whether cough counting from video recording is superior to simultaneous cough