The Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT): Can we make it more clinically meaningful?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 736-741

  Browne, John Patrick ^a,b   Hopkins, Claire ^a   Slack, Robert ^c   Cano, Stefan J ^c  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR DISEASE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FACE DISORDER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINONASAL OUTCOME TEST; SLEEP;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; COHORT STUDIES; COST OF ILLNESS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; NASAL POLYPS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHINITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINUSITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247526382     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2007.01.024     Document Type: Article

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