"The times they are a changin:" home diagnosis of sleep apnea has arrived

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Charles W Atwood Jr. Sleep. 2012.

. 2012 Jun 1;35(6):735-6.

doi: 10.5665/sleep.1848.

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. atwoodcw@upmc.edu

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A multisite randomized trial of portable sleep studies and positive airway pressure autotitration versus laboratory-based polysomnography for the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea: the HomePAP study.
Rosen CL, Auckley D, Benca R, Foldvary-Schaefer N, Iber C, Kapur V, Rueschman M, Zee P, Redline S. Rosen CL, et al. Sleep. 2012 Jun 1;35(6):757-67. doi: 10.5665/sleep.1870. Sleep. 2012. PMID: 22654195 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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