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Editor’s quiz: GI snapshot
Persistent cough: A question for the gastroenterologist?
  1. Elizabeth Parsons1,
  2. Bronwen E Warner1,
  3. Barbara Braden2
  1. 1 Acute General Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
  2. 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Bronwen E Warner, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Headley Way, Headington, OX3 9DU, UK; bronwenewarner{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2017-314247

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors EP and BW undertook data collection, analysis and drafting. All authors reviewed and edited the final article.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.