Weighted STOP-Bang and screening for sleep-disordered breathing

Description

STOP-Bang is a tool for predicting the likelihood for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). In the conventional score, all variables are dichotomous. Our aim was to identify whether modifying the STOP-Bang scoring tool by weighting the variables could improve test characteristics.

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1. Weighted STOP-Bang and screening for sleep-disordered breathing. 2016, 20 (2):597-603 Sleep Breath
2. 1522-1709
3. 26363578
4. 10.1007/s11325-015-1255-2
5. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623579
6. http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/623579
7. Sleep and Breathing

Tags

Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Screening

Questionnaire

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/623579
Date	12 September 2015
Creators	Nahapetian, Ryan, Silva, Graciela E, Vana, Kimberly D, Parthasarathy, Sairam, Quan, Stuart F
Contributors	University of Arizona College of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Nursing, Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Publisher	SPRINGER
Source Sets	University of Arizona
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article
Rights	© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Relation	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11325-015-1255-2