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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2014 Sep 18;5(1):36–45. doi: 10.1002/alr.21410

Table 5.

Comparison of average and relative score improvement between treatment modalities

Medical management (n=69) Endoscopic sinus surgery (n=273)
Cardinal Symptoms: Mean (SD) Improvement Relative improvement (%) Mean (SD) Improvement Relative improvement (%) p-value
“Thick nasal discharge” −0.6 (1.4) 24.1 −1.6 (1.7) 50.0 <0.001
“Facial pain/pressure” −0.5 (1.2) 21.7 −1.5 (1.5) 55.6 <0.001
“Sense of smell/taste” −0.5 (1.9) 17.9 −1.1 (1.8) 37.9 0.007
“Blockage/congestion of nose” −0.6 (1.8) 18.8 −2.0 (1.7) 55.6 <0.001

SD, standard deviation