q-Powders: a quick test for screening retronasal olfactory disorders with tasteless powders

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader q-Powders: a quick test for screening retronasal olfactory disorders with tasteless powders Via http://link.springer.com/journal/405,European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology,The European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2021 May 4. doi: 10.1007/s00405-021-06849-8. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT PURPOSE: To investigate the clinical utility of q-Powders-a retronasal identification screening test. METHODS: A total of 156 subjects (92 females, mean age: 54.5 years ± 17.3 years) completed a 3-item q-Powders retronasal identification test and a 16-items Sniffin' Sticks orthonasal identification test. We analyzed whether the q-Powders test could differentiate between subjects with normosmia and subjects with an olfactory disorder. RESULTS: Our data indicated that subjects with an olfactory disorder scored lower in the q-Powders test than subjects with normosmia. The analyses revealed q-Powders test sensitivity of 84% and a test specificity of 64.9% with a score of 2 points taken as a cutoff for olfactory disorders. CONCLUSION: The 3-item q-Powders retronasal test may be used for screening purposes in clinical re search. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 4. PMID:33948681 | DOI:10.1007/s00405-021-06849-8 View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.