Employer-mandated sleep apnea screening and diagnosis in commercial drivers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1017-1025

  Berger, Mark ^a   Varvarigou, Vasileia ^b,e   Rielly, Albert ^b,e   Czeisler, Charles A ^c,d   Malhotra, Atul ^c,d   Kales, Stefanos N ^b,d,e  

^a Precision Pulmonary Diagnostics   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Cambridge Health Alliance   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; DRIVER; EMPLOYER; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDATORY TESTING; MASS SCREENING; ONLINE ANALYSIS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SOMNI SAGE QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865465092     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182572e16     Document Type: Article

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