Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screening with a 4-Item Instrument, Named GOAL Questionnaire: Development, Validation and Comparative Study with No-Apnea, STOP-Bang, and NoSAS.

Ricardo Luiz de Menezes DuarteFlavio J Magalhães-da-SilveiraTiago Soares de Oliveira E SáJoana A SilvaFernanda Carvalho de Queiroz Mello David Gozal

Published in: Nature and science of sleep (2020)

All four instruments had similar performance, leading to a possible greater practical implementation of the GOAL questionnaire, a simple instrument with only four parameters easily obtained during clinical evaluation.

Keyphrases

obstructive sleep apnea
clinical evaluation
psychometric properties
patient reported outcomes
positive airway pressure
cross sectional
primary care
healthcare
patient reported
sleep apnea
quality improvement