Chronic rhinosinusitis disease control: a review of the history and the evidence.

Patients and physicians have well-aligned perspectives about the definition, criteria, and application of CRS disease control, with a specific prioritization of patients' assessments of their own CRS control, as well as the symptoms of nasal obstruction and nasal drainage. The development of future guidelines for assessing CRS control must be based on criteria supported by evidence as essential to the assessment of CRS control but should also be the subject of broad international consensus.