Cain W S
Yale J Biol Med. 1982 Sep-Dec;55(5-6):515-9.
The routine test of olfaction need not lead to an ambiguous outcome, a rather widely held notion. A multiple-choice test of odor identification that avoided the difficulty of retrieving odor names yielded excellent resolution among the categories normosmic, hyposmic, and anosmic. The outcome agreed almost perfectly with a more complicated test of threshold and offered much encouragement for the use of odor identification in rapid screening of olfaction.
嗅觉的常规测试不一定会产生模糊的结果,这是一个相当普遍的观点。一项避免了回忆气味名称困难的气味识别多项选择题测试,在正常嗅觉、嗅觉减退和嗅觉丧失类别之间产生了出色的分辨率。结果与一项更复杂的阈值测试几乎完全一致,并为在嗅觉快速筛查中使用气味识别提供了很大的鼓励。