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Penn Acoustic Neuroma Quality-of-Life (PANQOL) 

One hundred forty-three patients with acoustic neuromas completed the 80-question preliminary instrument and the general Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36). A chart review documented patient information. Statistical analysis was performed for item reduction and evaluation of validity criteria.

RESULTS:
Analysis of item-total and item-item score correlations eliminated 38 items from the preliminary instrument. Exploratory principal component factor analysis eliminated 16 additional items and identified a natural grouping of remaining items into seven domains, forming the final 26-item PANQOL scale. Test-retest reliability and internal consistency measures for the instrument were high. PANQOL domain scores correlated significantly with related SF-36 domain scores and correlated significantly with related visual analogue scale questions given with the preliminary instrument. PANQOL face domain scores showed significant differences across the House-Brackmann grading system scores and correlated inversely with tumor size. No domain in either the PANQOL or SF-36 had a strong correlation with pure-tone average or speech discrimination scores. The PANQOL scale discriminated acoustic neuroma cases from controls better than the SF-36.

CONCLUSIONS:
We have developed the first validated disease-specific quality of life instrument for patients with acoustic neuromas. Given the lack of a validated equivalent, this tool has the potential to become a critical outcome measure for studies evaluating treatment of patients with acoustic neuromas
((Shaffer BT, Cohen MS, Bigelow DC, Ruckenstein MJ. Validation of a
disease-specific quality-of-life instrument for acoustic neuroma: the Penn
Acoustic Neuroma Quality-of-Life Scale. Laryngoscope. 2010 Aug;120(8):1646-54.
doi: 10.1002/lary.20988. PubMed PMID: 20641085.
)).