Use of a Level 3 Portable Monitor for The Diagnosis and Management of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in an Inpatient Tertiary Care Setting

BACKGROUND: Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) may impact the course of medical illness among hospitalized patients. Access to testing during hospitalization to assess this may be limited by wait times for laboratory polysomnography. Level 3 portable monitoring (PM) may provide an alternative.

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Main Authors: Marcus Povitz, R John Kimoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/214943
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Use of a Level 3 Portable Monitor for The Diagnosis and Management of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in an Inpatient Tertiary Care Setting
Canadian Respiratory Journal
title Use of a Level 3 Portable Monitor for The Diagnosis and Management of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in an Inpatient Tertiary Care Setting
title_full Use of a Level 3 Portable Monitor for The Diagnosis and Management of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in an Inpatient Tertiary Care Setting
title_fullStr Use of a Level 3 Portable Monitor for The Diagnosis and Management of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in an Inpatient Tertiary Care Setting
title_full_unstemmed Use of a Level 3 Portable Monitor for The Diagnosis and Management of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in an Inpatient Tertiary Care Setting
title_short Use of a Level 3 Portable Monitor for The Diagnosis and Management of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in an Inpatient Tertiary Care Setting
title_sort use of a level 3 portable monitor for the diagnosis and management of sleep disordered breathing in an inpatient tertiary care setting
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