Technical failures occur in as many as 20% of home-sleep studies and are probably the biggest disadvantage of leaving patients unattended. In these instances, a repeat study is necessary.

These ranged from 3% [24,29] to a high of 18% in studies performed unattended at home. Of the two studies performed in the sleep laboratory, data loss was reported in 3.3% of patients in one study ...

Data to inform management of obstructive sleep apnea can be obtained at home, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine. “Demand for diagnostic sleep services has grown ...

Polysomnography is a sleep study that can help doctors diagnose sleep disorders. A person can take the study in a sleep center or at home. In this article, we look at why a person may need to ...

Silva compared the subjects' total sleep time and sleep onset latency obtained from unattended home PSGs to sleep times obtained from the Sleep Heart Health Study (SHHS) Sleep Habits Questionnaire ...

Bruyneel and colleagues reported similar rates in their study comparing level 1 in-laboratory to unattended level 1 at-home sleep studies (the latter is considered level 2 testing). The unattended ...

For millions of Americans, a battle is waging for their health and they're not even awake to see it happen.Sleep apnea is a medical condition where a person stops breathing multiple times a night ...

Study data were synthesized into tables and were categorized as follows: (1) monitor type (section 1.1); (2) location of the study (unattended at home vs attended in the sleep laboratory) [section ...