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- Title
Outcome predictors for endoscopic sinus surgery
- Authors
Wang, Pa-Chun; Chu, Chia-Chen; Liang, Shu-Cheng; Tai, Chih-Jaan
- Abstract
Objective: The outcomes management of endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) is a major effort to improve the quality of chronic sinusitis treatment. The objective of this study was to investigate the factors that may predict a variety of outcomes of ESS. Study Design and Setting: Two hundred and thirty consecutive patients who underwent ESS were prospectively evaluated by computerized axial tomography scan of the sinus and a validated chronic sinusitis survey (CSS) before surgery. The effects of prognostic factors were then investigated. Results: Extent of disease was a consistent predictor (P < 0.05) for bleeding, complication occurrence, medical resource utilization, subjective sinus-specific health status, and physicians'' objective evaluation of surgical outcomes. The preoperative CSS total score and extent of disease significantly (P < 0.05) predicted the postoperative CSS total score. Subjective and objective outcomes were significantly correlated (r = 0.58, P = 0.0001). These findings suggested the necessity of disease severity stratification when reporting ESS outcomes. Conclusion: Operation-related events, medical resource utilization, physician evaluation, and sinus-specific health status of patients are all integral parts of reporting outcomes of ESS. We have concluded that computerized axial tomography scan of the sinuses and CSS are efficient ways of providing reliable baseline information before ESS. (Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2002;126:154-9.)
- Subjects
SINUSITIS; ENDOSCOPIC surgery; TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH outcome assessment
- Publication
Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, 2002, Vol 126, Issue 2, p154
- ISSN
0194-5998
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1067/mhn.2002.121860