Sleep lab better than home testing for apnoea:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Investigation of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in a sleep laboratory is associated with a better outcome than recording cardiorespiratory variables at home, a US computer modelling study has found. Reporting their findings in the March issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr Ronald Chervin and colleagues say that under almost all the situations investigated in the study, laboratory-based polysomnography provided maximal quality-adjusted life-years in the five years immediately after the initial diagnostic evaluation. However, an editorial in the same journal criticises the study for including only one type of home testing device and for assuming that all patients need to undergo the same diagnostic tests.