Screening for sleep disordered breathing among applicants for a professional driver's license

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1275-1280

  Tzischinsky, Orna ^a,b   Cohen, Ayala ^b   Doveh, Etti ^b   Epstein, Rachel ^b   Ribak, Josi ^c   Klein, David ^c   Pillar, Giora ^b   Lavie, Peretz ^b  

^a Emek Yezreel College   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRIVER; DRIVER LICENCE; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCREENING; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SMOKING; SNORING; TRAVEL;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVER EXAMINATION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SMOKING; SNORING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867582926     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31825b1bb1     Document Type: Article

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