Impact of Portable Sleep Testing.
This article provides the current state of evidence on the socioeconomic impact of portable testing (PT) for sleep apnea. It seems the traditional in-laboratory polysomnography and the newer home-based PT model for sleep apnea diagnosis both have places in sleep medicine diagnostic algorithm. PT would be cost-effective in a selected group of patients as long as certain criteria, discussed in this article, are carefully considered.
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Room 5-20, Annenberg Building 5th Floor, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address: vaishnavi.kundel@mssm.edu.
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Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Room 5-20, Annenberg Building 5th Floor, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. Electronic address: neomi.shah@mssm.edu.
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D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D000067716:Point-of-Care Testing / Q000191:economics; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics
OSA; Portable monitoring; Social and economic impact