The AASM recommended and acceptable EEG montages are comparable for the staging of sleep and scoring of EEG arousals

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 803-809

  Duce, Brett ^a   Rego, Conchita ^a   Milosavljevic, Jasmina ^a   Hukins, Craig ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acceptable montage; EEG; EEG arousal scoring; Inter scorer agreement; Intra scorer agreement; Kappa; Polysomnography; Recommended montage; Sleep apnea; Sleep staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SLEEP MEDICINE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REM SLEEP; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP MEDICINE; SLEEP STAGE; STAGING; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; AROUSAL; AUSTRALIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84904463897     PISSN: 15509389     EISSN: 15509397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.3880     Document Type: Article

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