The control of allergic rhinitis in real life:

a multicenter cross-sectional Italian study

Federica Gani, Carlo Lombardi, Laura Barrocu, Massimo Landi, Erminia Ridolo,
Massimo Bugiani, Giovanni Rolla, Gianenrico Senna and Giovanni Passalacqua

Clinical and Molecular Allergy. 2018 16(4): 1-6.

CRITICAL APPRAISAL

General Description
1. Design : Multi-center observational cross-sectional study
2. Subject : Patients of both sexes and older than 16 with allergic
rhinitis symptoms and without asthma
3. Title : Interesting, concise and straightforward
4. Authors : Clearly written constitution and there are correspondence
address
5. Abstract : Clear and appropriate rules
6. Introduction : Consists of five paragraphs and contains the background
and research objectives

Level of Evidence
Level IV

P-I-C-O Analysis
1. Population : 250 patients with Allergic Rhinitis, referred for the
first time to Allergy centers of Northern Italy (Turin, Verona, Parma,
Brescia), with ascertained symptoms of AR in the previous month and
without a previous asthma diagnosis were included between May-December
2015.
2. Intervention : No intervention
 3. Comparison : No comparison
4. Outcome : This study could not show any correlation between the
lack of AR control and asthma, since the patients were selected without
asthma and in a cross-sectional fashion

V-I-A Analysis
1. Validity :
a. The references of this study are well-defined
b. This study was using standardized examination of patients with clinical
case of dysphagia
2. Importance :
a. To study the clinical profile of dysphagia and find the relative incidence
of various ethiology of dysphagia
b. The reader is confident in the truth of the results of this original research
article because the authors had analysed all the results well and had also
provided the correspondence address
3. Applicability :
This article may valuable to give the readers information about the
clinical profile of dysphagia and find the relative incidence of various
ethiology of dysphagia