Prediction of obstructive sleep apnea: comparative performance of three screening instruments on the apnea-hypopnea index and the oxygen desaturation index.
Christianne C A F M VeugenEmma M TeunissenLeontine A S den OtterMartijn P KosRobert J StokroosMarcel P CopperPublished in: Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung (2020)
This is the first study to evaluate the predictive performance of three different screening instruments with respect to both the AHI and the ODI. This is important, due to increasing evidence that the ODI may have a higher reproducibility in the clinical setting. The NoSAS score and the STOP-Bang questionnaire proved to be equally adequate to predict OSA severity based on both the AHI and the ODI.