title: Database application for patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.
abstract: Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) results from upper airway collapse during sleep. It represents an increasingly recognized pathology associated with many diseases. Herein, we describe a database for patients with OSAS. This has different goals: to facilitate good uniformity in clinical assessment, to allow the use of the application even by non-ENT specialists, to evaluate the results of medical and/or surgical treatments and to enable a statistical meta-analysis derived from the data collected in many OSAS medical centres.
authors.affiliation: ENT Department, Università di Siena, via Anagnina 718, 00118 Rome, Italy. desiderio.passali@passali.org
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Passali
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Caruso
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Arigliano
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Passali
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bellussi
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive; D012984:Software
keywords: Database; OSA; OSAS; Software; Statistics