Open AccessWhich Screening Questionnaire is Best for Predicting Obstructive Sleep Apnea in the Sleep Clinic Population Considering Age, Gender, and Comorbidities?
Author(s) -
Burcu Oktay Arslan,
Zeynep Zeren Uçar,
Mehmet Orman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
turkish thoracic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 7
ISSN - 2149-2530
DOI - 10.5152/turkthoracj.2019.19024
Subject(s) - obstructive sleep apnea , medicine , sleep (system call) , population , physical therapy , sleep apnea , pediatrics , computer science , environmental health , operating system
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictive power of the screening questionnaires including Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), Berlin questionnaire (BQ) and STOP-Bang questionnaire (SBQ) to identify the high-risk patients for OSA in a sleep clinic setting considering age, gender and comorbidities.