Diagnosis of sleep apnea by automatic analysis of nasal pressure and forced oscillation impedance

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 940-944

  Steltner, Holger ^a,b   Staats, Richard ^a,b   Timmer, Jens ^a,b   Vogel, Michael ^a,b   Guttmann, Josef ^a,b   Matthys, Heinrich ^a,b   Christian Virchow, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Diagnosis; Inter observer variability; Sleep disordered breathing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MALE; OSCILLATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036529058     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.165.7.2106018     Document Type: Article

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