[Diagnostic accuracy of outpatient polygraphy devices : A comparison with inpatient polysomnography in clinical routine].
CONCLUSION: Outpatient PG cannot reliably assess OSA severity in clinical routine. Confirmation by PSG in a sleep lab in symptomatic patients is obligatory. Outpatient PG devices should only be used as an upstream screening method. The automatic evaluation of the PG should always be proofed.
PMID: 28078407 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: HNO - Category: ENT & OMF Tags: HNO Source Type: research
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