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Clinical and Translational Allergy
Published in: Clinical and Translational Allergy 1/2018

Open Access 01-12-2018 | Research

Visual analogue scale for sino-nasal symptoms severity correlates with sino-nasal outcome test 22: paving the way for a simple outcome tool of CRS burden

Authors: Maria Doulaptsi, Emmanuel Prokopakis, Sven Seys, Benoit Pugin, Brecht Steelant, Peter Hellings

Published in: Clinical and Translational Allergy | Issue 1/2018

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Abstract

Background

A visual analogue scale (VAS) is a psychometric instrument widely used in the Rhinology field to subjectively quantify patient’s symptoms severity. In allergic rhinitis, VAS has been found to correlate well with the allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma severity classification, as well as with rhinoconjunctivitis quality of life questionnaire. In chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), total VAS score are often used to classify disease burden into mild, moderate, and severe, with few studies correlating VAS scores with more complex and validated instruments assessing disease-specific burden like Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT)-22.

Methods

We correlated VAS scores for total and individual sino-nasal symptom with SNOT-22 scores in a randomly selected group of 180 CRS patients. Pearson’s rho was selected as a correlation coefficient for analysis.

Results

VAS scores for total nasal symptom score and individual symptoms correlated significantly with SNOT-22, irrespective of VAS based subclasses for sino-nasal, ocular, and bronchial symptoms.

Conclusions

VAS for total sino-nasal symptom severity might be used for assessing disease severity, monitoring the course of the disease, and can be used for treatment decisions and disease burden.
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Metadata
Title
Visual analogue scale for sino-nasal symptoms severity correlates with sino-nasal outcome test 22: paving the way for a simple outcome tool of CRS burden
Authors
Maria Doulaptsi
Emmanuel Prokopakis
Sven Seys
Benoit Pugin
Brecht Steelant
Peter Hellings
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Clinical and Translational Allergy / Issue 1/2018
Electronic ISSN: 2045-7022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13601-018-0219-6

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