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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Forum Allergy Rhinol. 2019 Jun 17;9(8):831–841. doi: 10.1002/alr.22369

Table 5:

Frequency of responses to long-term follow-up survey questions surrounding patient expectation of endoscopic sinus surgery (n=59)

‘Strongly
disagree’
‘Disagree’ ‘Neither agree
or disagree’
‘Agree’ ‘Strongly
agree’
N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
1. Before you had sinus surgery, did you believe this treatment would completely resolve your sinus condition related symptoms? 0 (0%) 10 (17%) 16 (27%) 26 (44%) 7 (12%)
2. The resolution of my symptoms following sinus surgery matched my expectations that I had prior to surgery. 1 (2%) 10 (17%) 13 (22%) 24 (41%) 11 (19%)
3. Sinus surgery improved the symptoms most important to me. 2 (3%) 4 (7%) 9 (15%) 27 (46%) 17 (29%)
4. I was satisfied that I was adequately informed about the issues important to my decision to receive sinus surgery. 1 (2%) 0 (0%) 5 (9%) 29 (49%) 24 (41%)
5. If you had to do it again, would you pursue sinus surgery? 0 (0%) 1 (2%) 7 (12%) 17 (29%) 34 (58%)
6. I would recommend sinus surgery to someone else who needed it. 1 (2%) 2 (3%) 4 (7%) 20 (34%) 32 (54%)

N, sample size.