Incorporating body-type (apple vs. pear) in STOP-BANG questionnaire improves its validity to detect OSA
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Alternative scoring models of STOP-bang questionnaire improve specificity to detect undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea.
BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is common among surgical patients. The STOP-Bang questionnaire is a validated screening tool with a high sensitivity. However, its moderate specificity may yield fairly high false positive rate. We hypothesized that the specific combinations of predicting factors in the STOP-Bang questionnaire would improve its specificity. METHODS After research ethic...
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To the editor, We appreciate the study by Mindell et al. [1], which highlights a very limited coverage of sleep in medical school education in 12 different countries. We recently performed a similar survey in Italy, asking members of the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine how sleep medicine was taught in their Universities. We collected information from 21 of the 39 Italian universities (54%...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0952-8180
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2016.12.019