Monitoring adult patients with sleep apnea.
It can be said that there are two methods of evaluating certain aspects of sleep. PSM is more traditional and uses older equipment to assess a full scope of sleep disorders in a rather expensive and inconvenient way. Computerized home monitoring is a more modern way of monitoring sleep using improving technology, probably most applicable to snoring with sleep apnea, in a less expensive way. A joint study group should co-ordinate and encourage progress in both traditional and computerized procedures to the greater good of all.
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University of California Medical Center, San Francisco.
D000328:Adult; D003201:Computers; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology; D012913:Snoring / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology