The never-ending challenge of using clinical criteria to diagnose and assess severity of chronic rhinosinusitis

The history of evolving clinical criteria used to diagnose chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one that has been rife with peril. One of the earliest attempts to promulgate criteria for the clinical diagnosis of CRS, published in 1992, could be interpreted to argue that anyone with the combination of a sore throat or a cough with halitosis could be considered to have CRS!1 Thus, the development of the sinonasal outcome test (SNOT)-20 (now the SNOT-22, with the supplement of 2 additional components) has been a valuable advance.
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research