PMID- 19629415
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091123
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1433-0458 (Electronic)
IS  - 0017-6192 (Linking)
VI  - 57
IP  - 9
DP  - 2009 Sep
TI  - [Validated instruments to measure quality of life in patients with chronic 
      rhinosinusitis].
PG  - 873-81
LID - 10.1007/s00106-009-1972-6 [doi]
AB  - Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a disease of remarkable medical and economic 
      importance. Therefore, assessment of the objective as well as the subjective 
      outcomes of different therapeutic strategies in CRS patients is of growing 
      interest. Validated quality-of-life (QOL) instruments are one important means of 
      assessing the subjective outcomes of patients. The Short Form 36 Health Survey 
      (SF-36) is the most frequently used generic instrument in medicine and is 
      typically used in prospective studies. A German version of this questionnaire has 
      been validated, providing normative data as well as data for comparison with 
      other diseases. The Glasgow Benefit Inventory, which was designed for 
      retrospective studies, is another frequently used QOL instrument. Several 
      disease-specific measuring instruments for use in CRS patients have been 
      developed during the last 15 years. In this review, we evaluate 11 
      disease-specific QOL instruments. Only four of these instruments cover the four 
      main symptoms of CRS and are validated instruments as well. The most frequently 
      used instruments [Sino-Nasal Outcome Test 20 (SNOT-20) and the Chronic Sinusitis 
      Survey] do not query all of the main symptoms of CRS, whereas the only validated 
      German instrument (SNOT-20 GAV) meets this requirement. For the latter 
      instrument, a grading scale is available that allows interpretation of the 
      results for a single patient.
FAU - Baumann, I
AU  - Baumann I
AD  - Universitats-HNO-Klinik Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120, Heidelberg, 
      Deutschland. ingo.baumann@med.uni-heidelberg.de
LA  - ger
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PT  - Validation Study
TT  - Validierte Lebensqualitatsmessinstrumente zur Anwendung bei Patienten mit 
      chronischer Rhinosinusitis.
PL  - Germany
TA  - HNO
JT  - HNO
JID - 2985099R
SB  - IM
MH  - Germany
MH  - Humans
MH  - Otolaryngology/methods/trends
MH  - Outcome Assessment, Health Care/*methods/*trends
MH  - Psychometrics/*methods/trends
MH  - *Quality of Life
MH  - Rhinitis/*diagnosis/psychology/*therapy
MH  - Sinusitis/*diagnosis/psychology/*therapy
MH  - Treatment Outcome
RF  - 73
EDAT- 2009/07/25 09:00
MHDA- 2009/12/16 06:00
CRDT- 2009/07/25 09:00
PHST- 2009/07/25 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/07/25 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/12/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s00106-009-1972-6 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - HNO. 2009 Sep;57(9):873-81. doi: 10.1007/s00106-009-1972-6.