What is it about?
Using the EQ-5D-5L health questionnaire suggests that British chronic sinusitis patients have a poor quality of life. The SF-12 questionnaire was less sensitive. The EQ-5D-5L is a quick and accessible method for assessing quality of life and can be compared with other diseases.
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Why is it important?
There is evidence now that chronic sinusitis has a significant personal impact with regard to symptom severity, reduced vitality and loss of time from work with a wider impact on society because of this.
Perspectives
This work helps determine which quality of life questionnaires are best used in chronic sinusitis trials in the future, especially to allow comparison with other diseases.
Professor Carl Philpott
University of East Anglia
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This page is a summary of: Health utility reporting in chronic rhinosinusitis patients, Clinical Otolaryngology, June 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/coa.12903.
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