title: Maximizing positive airway pressure adherence in adults: a common-sense approach.
abstract: Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy is considered the most efficacious treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), especially moderate to severe OSA, and remains the most commonly prescribed. Yet suboptimal adherence presents a challenge to sleep-medicine clinicians. The purpose of the current review is to highlight the efficacy of published interventions to improve PAP adherence and to suggest a patient-centered clinical approach to enhancing PAP usage.
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Associates, Columbia, MD; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address: emerson@ewickwire.com.
authors.forename: Emerson M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Wickwire
authors.affiliation: Uniformed Services University and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lettieri
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Associates, Columbia, MD.
authors.forename: Alyssa A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Cairns
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Nancy A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Collop
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*