Home sleep apnea testing: comparison of manual and automated scoring across international sleep centers.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the agreement between the manual scoring of home sleep apnea tests (HSATs) by international sleep technologists and automated scoring systems.

Methods

Fifteen HSATs, previously recorded using a type 3 monitor, were saved in European Data Format. The studies were scored by nine experienced technologists from the sleep centers of the Sleep Apnea Global Interdisciplinary Consortium (SAGIC) using the locally available software. Each study was scored separately by human scorers using the nasal pressure (NP), flow derived from the NP signal (transformed NP), or respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP) flow. The same procedure was followed using two automated scoring systems: Remlogic (RLG) and Noxturnal (NOX).

Results

The intra-class correlation coef

SUBMITTER: Magalang UJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6615031 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature