Table 1: Basic statistics for the three items of the BSS-ped and of the BSS-ped total score of the 1-6-year-old patients in the main and comparative samples at the first visit.

- Main Sample: n=78 Comparative Sample: n=70
- Items of the BSS-ped total Items of the BSS-ped total
- Cough Rales° Dyspnoea BSS-ped Cough Rales° Dyspnoea BSS-ped
Arithmetic Mean m 2.82 2.36 1.08 6.26 2.39 1.91 0.39 4.69
Median md 3.00 2.00 1.00 6.00 2.00 2.00 0.00 5.00
Standard Deviation sd 0.53 0.66 0.80 1.18 0.57 0.50 0.55 0.91
Minimum 2 1 0 5 1 1 0 3
Maximum 4 4 3 10 4 3 2 7

°pulmonary rales at auscultation