title: Point: should board certification in sleep be required to prescribe CPAP therapy on the basis of home sleep testing? Yes.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine and the Program in Sleep Medicine, Health Sciences Center, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Electronic address: lkbrown@alum.mit.edu.
authors.forename: Lee K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification / Q000592:standards*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D045422:Continuous Positive Airway Pressure; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory; D017286:Polysomnography; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D056508:Sleep Medicine Specialty / Q000193:education*; D013044:Specialty Boards / Q000592:standards*; D016896:Treatment Outcome