title: Ambulatory Diagnosis and Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Screening Questionnaires, Diagnostic Tests, and the Care Team.
abstract: Obstructive sleep apnea has increased in prevalence in recent years and despite the expansion in sleep medicine services there is a significant unmet burden of disease. This burden presents a challenge to specialists and requires a reappraisal of service delivery, including a move toward lower-cost, simplified methods of diagnosis and treatment, an expansion of the sleep apnea workforce to include suitably trained and equipped primary care physicians and nurses, and the incorporation of chronic disease management principles that link patients to relevant community resources and empower them through new technologies to engage more fully in their own care.
authors.affiliation: Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, A Flinders Centre of Research Excellence, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia 5042, Australia; Sleep Health Service, Respiratory and Sleep Services, Repatriation General Hospital, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, Daws Road, Daw Park, South Australia 5041, Australia. Electronic address: doug.mcevoy@flinders.edu.au.
authors.forename: R Doug
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: McEvoy
authors.affiliation: Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, A Flinders Centre of Research Excellence, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia 5042, Australia; Sleep Health Service, Respiratory and Sleep Services, Repatriation General Hospital, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, Daws Road, Daw Park, South Australia 5041, Australia.
authors.forename: Ching Li
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Chai-Coetzer
authors.affiliation: Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, A Flinders Centre of Research Excellence, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia 5042, Australia; Sleep Health Service, Respiratory and Sleep Services, Repatriation General Hospital, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, Daws Road, Daw Park, South Australia 5041, Australia.
authors.forename: Nick A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Antic
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: Ambulatory care; Obstructive sleep apnea; Self-care