The Empty Nose Syndrome 6-Item Questionnaire (ENS6Q): a validated 6-item questionnaire as a diagnostic aid for empty nose syndrome patients

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• 作者：Nathalia Velasquez ; Andrew Thamboo ; Al-Rahim R. Habib ; Zhenxiao Huang and Jayakar V. Nayak
• 刊名：International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：7
• 期：1
• 页码：64-71
• 全文大小：378K
• ISSN：2042-6984

文摘

Empty nose syndrome (ENS) is considered an acquired condition that remains difficult to diagnose objectively. Defining specific symptoms that can be reliably associated with this disorder would be essential to identifying possible ENS patients. We sought to validate an ENS-specific, 6-item questionnaire as an adjunct to the standard Sino-Nasal Outcome Test 22 (SNOT-22) questionnaire to discriminate patients suspected of having ENS.