Agreement between manual and automatic analyses of home sleep examinations in pediatric obstructive sleep apnea

Marie Ørntoft*, Ida Gran Andersen, Preben Homøe

*Corresponding author for this work
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Abstract

Aim: Home sleep testing is becoming more common in the diagnostics of pediatric obstructive sleep apnea. The aim was to examine the agreement between manual and automatic analyses of home sleep examinations in children and adolescents. Materials & methods: Sleep examinations recorded with a type 3 sleep monitor (Nox T3) were analyzed manually by a registered polysomnographic technologist and automatically with Noxturnal version 5.1. Results: 51sleep examinations on children and adolescents with a median age of 13.6 years were included. The median manual apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was 2.7 (range 0.2 to 28.2), while the median automatic AHI was 11.9 (range 4.2 to 45.6; p < 0.001). Conclusion: The agreement between manual and automatic analyses was poor. The AHI was consistently overestimated by automatic analysis.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Comparative Effectiveness Research
Volume8
Issue number8
Pages (from-to)623-631
ISSN2042-6305
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • automatic analysis
  • home sleep examination
  • Noxturnal
  • pediatric obstructive sleep apnea
  • portable monitoring

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