Table 1.

Final Diagnosis of New Episodes Presented with the Reasons for Encounter of ‘Cough’

ICPC CodeEpisode Label (Final Diagnosis) †% Final Diagnosis
R05Cough‡30.7
R74Acute upper respiratory infection28.5
R78Acute bronchitis/bronchiolitis14.2
R77Acute laryngitis/tracheitis6.8
R81Pneumonia6.4
R80Influenza2.6
R75Acute/chronic sinusitis2.3
H71Acute otitis media/myringitis1.1
R96Asthma1.0
A77Viral disease, other/NOS0.5

  • ICPC, International Classification of Primary Care.

  • * Cough is coded as R05 in the 2005–2019 FaMe-Net dataset.

  • ↵† Total number of patient-years: 278,126.

  • ↵‡ Number of episodes starting with ‘cough’: 27,287.