Pressure modification or humidification for improving usage of continuous positive airway pressure machines in adults with obstructive sleep apnoea

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2019, Issue 12, 2019, Pages

  Kennedy, Barry ^a   Lasserson, Toby J ^b   Wozniak, Dariusz R ^c   Smith, Ian ^c  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b Editorial Methods Department   (United Kingdom)

^c PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES OF SLEEP QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERVENTION STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESSURE; PRESSURE MODIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAKEFULNESS; ADULT; HUMIDIFIER; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

ADULT; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; HUMANS; HUMIDIFIERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 85076020491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003531.pub4     Document Type: Review

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