Outpatient health care utilization for sleep disorders in the Cerner Health Facts database.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

Sleep disorders are common in the general population. This study aimed to identify direct health care utilization for sleep disorders using big data through the Cerner Health Facts database.

Methods

The Cerner Health Facts database has 68.7 million patients in the data warehouse, documenting approximately 506.9 million encounters from 100 nonaffiliated health care systems. To identify sleep-related health care utilization, we examined the frequency of outpatient encounters related to sleep disorders between the years 2000 and 2017. Sleep disorders were grouped-based on the International Classification of Sleep Disorders-Third Edition.

Results

Approximately 20.5 million patients were identified with a total of 127.4 million outpatient encounters. In pe

SUBMITTER: Al-Shawwa B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7853225 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature