More isn't always better: Cost-effectiveness analysis and the case for using a split-night protocol

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 154-155

  Kapur, Vishesh K ^a,b   Sullivan, Sean D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Swedish Sleep Medicine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 33745134737     PISSN: 15509389     EISSN: 15509397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.26509     Document Type: Note

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