Classification, technical specifications, and types of home sleep testing devices for sleep-disordered breathing

Sleep Medicine Clinics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 261-282

  Hesselbacher, Sean ^a   Mattewal, Amarbir ^a   Hirshkowitz, Max ^b   Sharafkhaneh, Amir ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apnea; Diagnosis; Hypopnea; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; HOME SLEEP TESTING DEVICE; HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

EID: 80052283763     PISSN: 1556407X     EISSN: 15564088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsmc.2011.05.010     Document Type: Review

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