Translation and validation of Berlin questionnaire in primary health care in Greece

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bouloukaki, Izolde ^a   Komninos, Ioannis D ^b   Mermigkis, Charalampos ^a   Micheli, Katerina ^a   Komninou, Maria ^b   Moniaki, Violeta ^a   Mauroudi, Eleni ^a   Siafakas, Nikolaos M ^a   Schiza, Sophia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Vrachasi Practice   (Greece)

Author keywords

Berlin questionnaire; Greece; Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome; Primary care patients; Screening tool; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; BERLIN QUESTIONNAIRE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPNEA INDEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TRANSLATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872688357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-13-6     Document Type: Article

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