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OBJECTIVE: To analyze the change over the 25 years period in the number of publications on allergic rhinitis from Turkey, and to compare the data of the four major relevant specialties. METHODS: A search was conducted over 25-years between1994 and 2019 using the keywords "allergic rhinitis" and "Turkey" in PubMed®, and "allerji", "alerji" and "rinit" in TRDizin®. The articles were grouped by specialty; namely, "Otorhinolaryngology (ORL)," "Pediatrics," adult "Pulmonary disease" and adult "Allergy/immunology," based on the affiliation of the first author. The total number of publications in each specialty group within the 25-year period were compared using a significance test for a difference in two proportions within the statistical assessment. RESULTS: The 25-year results revealed 624 and 213 publications in the PubMed® and the TRDizin® databases, respectively. When the number of publications in a specific field in both databases was examined, the highest number of publications were identified in the ORL group, followed by the Pediatrics group. The number of publications in the ORL group was statistically higher than those in the "Pulmonary diseases" and "Allergy/immunology" groups in both the PubMed® and the TRDizin® databases (p=0.0001). CONCLUSION: The analysis of the number of 25-year allergic rhinitis publications from Turkey revealed that the academic interest of otolaryngologists in allergic rhinitis was unaffected, despite the challenges experienced in practice, with an increasing number of publications noted. When the number of 25-year publications was examined, ORL recorded the highest number of publications among all specialties.
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OBJECTIVE: We aimed to adapt the Facial Nerve Grading System 2.0 (FNGS 2.0) to Turkish and to investigate the validity and the reliability of the Turkish version. METHODS: The original FNGS 2.0 was translated into Turkish and validated by international standards. Six Turkish physicians, three specialists and three residents, independently rated the videos, two times each, of 40 adult facial palsy patients. Inter-rater and intra-rater reliability were assessed using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Cronbach's alpha coefficient. As another indication of reliability, "generalizability" was also evaluated. For all analyses, a p value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: ICC and Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the inter-rater reliability of the total score of the FNGS 2.0 were 0.970 and 0.979 for the first assessment, 0.973 and 0.979 for the second assessment, respectively. The intra-rater reliability ICC results for the total score of the FNGS 2.0 were 0.95, 0.976, 0.982, 0.956, 0.96 and 0.931 for the six raters, respectively. The generalizability coefficient was found as G=0.894. CONCLUSION: In this study, we adapted the FNGS 2.0 to Turkish, and confirmed its reliability and validity as a facial palsy scale. The Turkish version of the FNGS 2.0 can be safely used to assess.
