Point: Should Board Certification in Sleep Be Required to Prescribe CPAP Therapy on the Basis of Home Sleep Testing? Yes

Brown, Lee K.

doi:10.1378/chest.13-1697

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“…Home-based management of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) utilizing home sleep apnea testing (HSAT) and automatic positive airway pressure therapy (autoPAP) is increasingly used as a management pathway for SDB. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Such home-based management of SDB generally excludes patients with significant medical comorbidities because most research studies on which recommendations were based excluded patients with such comorbidities. 11 Specifically, significant comorbid medical conditions are thought to degrade the accuracy of HSAT.…”

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