Can patients with obstructive sleep apnea titrate their own continuous positive airway pressure?

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 716-722

  Fitzpatrick, Michael F ^a   Alloway, Christi E D ^a   Wakeford, Tracy M ^a   MacLean, Alistair W ^a   Munt, Peter W ^a   Day, Andrew G ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuous positive airway pressure; Outcomes; Sleep apnea; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE SCORE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES OF SLEEP QUESTIONNAIRE SCORE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SLEEP APNEA QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TITRIMETRY; WAKEFULNESS; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REM SLEEP; SELF CARE; SLEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP, REM; TIME FACTORS; TITRIMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0037364284     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200204-360OC     Document Type: Article

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