Hypopnea Scoring Criteria: Time to Move Toward a Single Standardized Definition
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Current hypopnea scoring criteria underscore pediatric sleep disordered breathing.
OBJECTIVE This is a retrospective study comparing 2007 American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) pediatric scoring criteria and Stanford scoring criteria of pediatric polysomnograms to characterize the impact different scoring systems have upon the diagnosis of sleep disordered breathing in children. METHODS The diagnostic and post-treatment nocturnal polysomnograms (PSGs) of children (age 2-...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1550-9389,1550-9397
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.7506