Validation of an Italian version of the 40-item University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test that is physician administered: Our experience on one hundred and thirty-eight healthy subjects

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 53-57

  Picillo, M ^a   Iavarone, A ^b   Pellecchia, M T ^c   Amboni, M ^c,d   Erro, R ^a   Moccia, M ^a   Vitale, C ^d,e   Longo, K ^d   Santangelo, G ^f   Spina, E ^a   Scannapieco, S ^c   Orefice, G ^a   Barone, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b AORN Ospedale dei Colli   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^d IDC Hermitage Capodimonte   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^f SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR RECOGNITION TEST; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SMELL IDENTIFICATION TEST; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PENNSYLVANIA;

EID: 84896866122     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/coa.12212     Document Type: Article

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