A method for diagnosing, assessing, and determining of the efficacy of a
treatment regimen for chronic rhinosinusitis is presented. The method
comprises collecting subjective information from a patient or patient
population in the form of patient entries into a daily diary, wherein the
daily diary comprises the patient responses to questions directed to the
presence or absence of a group of clinical signs and symptoms related to
chronic rhinosinusitis. Based upon the patient responses in the daily
diaries, certain of the clinical signs and symptoms are identified for
use in the generation of a scoring tool useful in the determination and
assessment of the efficacy of a treatment regimen for chronic
rhinosinusitis, as well as in the clinical determination of the severity
of the symptoms related to chronic rhinosinusitis.