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The Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS)

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The next step will be for WURSS to undergo large-scale psychometric testing with the goal of assessing its internal and external validity properties more accurately. We welcome comments, consultation, and collaboration and hope to involve other researchers as we move further in the direction of an accurate and reliable method for assessing the impact of the common cold.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the participants who contributed their time and energy while they were sick. We also thank the many physicians and coworkers who contributed their knowledge and opinions, especially Nora Cate Schaeffer, PhD; Mary Beth Plane, PhD; Jon Temte, MD, PhD; Donn D’Alessio, MD; and William Scheckler, MD, in Madison, Wis., and Jack Gwaltney, MD, in Charlottesville, Va. During most of this project, Dr Barrett has had support from the National Center for Complementary and Alter native Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, Grant #K23 AT00051-01.

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