Evaluation of five different questionnaires for assessing sleep apnea syndrome in a sleep clinic

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 776-781

  Pataka, Athanasia ^a   Daskalopoulou, Euphemia ^b   Kalamaras, George ^a   Fekete Passa, Katalin ^a   Argyropoulou, Parakevi ^a  

^a G Papanikolaou Hospital   (Greece)

^b Sleep Laboratory   (Greece)

Author keywords

4 Variable Screening Tool; Berlin Questionnaire; ESS; Evaluation; STOP; STOPBang

Indexed keywords

4 VARIABLE SCREENING TOOL QUESTIONNAIRE; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; BERLIN QUESTIONNAIRE; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK CIRCUMFERENCE; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP PATTERN; SNORING; STOP QUESTIONNAIRE; STOPBANG QUESTIONNAIRE; EVALUATION STUDY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SLEEP MEDICINE; STANDARDS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SLEEP MEDICINE SPECIALTY;

EID: 84901999717     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2014.03.012     Document Type: Article

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