Is There a Clinical Role For Smartphone Sleep Apps? Comparison of Sleep Cycle Detection by a Smartphone Application to Polysomnography | Zendy

Sushanth Bhat | Zendy; Ambra Ferraris | Zendy; Divya Gupta | Zendy; Mona Mozafarian | Zendy; Vincent A. DeBari | Zendy; Neola Gushway-Henry | Zendy; Satish P. Gowda | Zendy; Peter Polos | Zendy; Mitchell Rubinstein | Zendy; Huzaifa Seidu | Zendy; Sudhansu Chokroverty | Zendy

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Is There a Clinical Role For Smartphone Sleep Apps? Comparison of Sleep Cycle Detection by a Smartphone Application to Polysomnography

Author(s) -

Sushanth Bhat,

Ambra Ferraris,

Divya Gupta,

Mona Mozafarian,

Vincent A. DeBari,

Neola Gushway-Henry,

Satish P. Gowda,

Peter Polos,

Mitchell Rubinstein,

Huzaifa Seidu,

Sudhansu Chokroverty

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of clinical sleep medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.529

H-Index - 92

eISSN - 1550-9397

pISSN - 1550-9389

DOI - 10.5664/jcsm.4840

Subject(s) - polysomnography , sleep (system call) , medicine , smartphone app , smartphone application , actigraphy , audiology , physical therapy , circadian rhythm , electroencephalography , psychiatry , computer science , internet privacy , multimedia , operating system

Several inexpensive, readily available smartphone apps that claim to monitor sleep are popular among patients. However, their accuracy is unknown, which limits their widespread clinical use. We therefore conducted this study to evaluate the validity of parameters reported by one such app, the Sleep Time app (Azumio, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA) for iPhones.

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