Society guideline links: Chronic rhinosinusitis

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Acute rhinosinusitis".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Rhinitis".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Primary ciliary dyskinesia".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Subacute and chronic cough in adults".)

International

●International Consensus in Allergy and Rhinology (ICAR): Statement on rhinosinusitis (2021)

●International Consensus (ICON): Chronic rhinosinusitis (2014)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't perform endoscopic sinus surgery for uncomplicated pediatric chronic rhinosinusitis prior to failure of maximal medical therapy and adenoidectomy (2022)

●Canadian clinical practice guidelines for acute and chronic rhinosinusitis (2011)

United States

●Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters (JTF-PP): GRADE guidelines for the medical management of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (2023)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on sinonasal disease (2021)

●American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP): Clinical practice guideline on adult sinusitis (2020)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on sinusitis – Child (2018)

●American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF): Clinical practice guideline on adult sinusitis, update (2015)

●American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI), American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI), and Joint Council of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (JCAAI): A practice parameter on the diagnosis and management of rhinosinusitis, update (2014)

●Clinical consensus statement on pediatric chronic rhinosinusitis (2014)

Europe

●European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis (EPOS)/European Forum for Research and Education in Allergy and Airway Diseases (EUFOREA): Update on indication and evaluation of biologics in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (2023)

●European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI): Benefits and harm of systemic steroids for short- and long-term use in rhinitis and rhinosinusitis – A position paper (2020)

●EPOS: European position paper on rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps (2020)

●EUFOREA: Consensus on biologics for CRSwNP with or without asthma (2019)

●EUFOREA-Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA)-EPOS-Integrated care pathways for airway diseases (AIRWAYS-ICPs): Statement on positioning the principles of precision medicine in care pathways for allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis (2017)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on corticosteroid-eluting bioabsorbable stent or spacer insertion during endoscopic sinus surgery to treat chronic rhinosinusitis (2016)

●NICE: Interventional procedure guidance on balloon catheter dilation of paranasal sinus ostia for chronic sinusitis (2008)