Patient perspectives on international multidisciplinary consensus criteria for chronic rhinosinusitis disease control.

Objectives: Recently, a set of consensus criteria and near-consensus criteria for the evaluation of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) disease control was identified by an international multidisciplinary panel of key stakeholders. The objective of this study is to evaluate patient perspectives on these disease control criteria.

Methods: This is a qualitative phenomenological study using constant comparative methodology.

Patient-reported disease control versus overall symptom severity as global metrics of chronic rhinosinusitis disease status.

Background: Overall symptom severity (OSS) and patient-reported chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) control are global measures of CRS identified as consensus, essential criteria for CRS disease control assessment. We sought to determine the functional relationship between these two metrics.

Methods: Using an international multicenter mixed-methods design, 260 CRS patients were recruited.