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ArticleJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2014

Scoring respiratory events in sleep medicine: who is the driver--biology or medical insurance?

Robert Joseph Thomas, Christian Guilleminault, Indu Ayappa, David M Rapoport

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Article in Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Effect of Varying Definitions of Hypopnea on the Diagnosis and Clinical Outcomes of Sleep-Disordered Breathing: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2019
    Pooled it
  2. Hypopnea Scoring Criteria: Time to Move Toward a Single Standardized Definition.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2018
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Sleep apnoea.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2016
    Review
  5. Capitulation or advocacy for sleep physicians and patients?Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2014
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Robert Joseph ThomasBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Christian GuilleminaultStanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA.
Indu AyappaNew York University, NY, NY.
David M RapoportNew York University, NY, NY.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ApneaContinuous Positive Airway PressureHealth PolicyHumansInsurance, Health, ReimbursementMedicareNeeds AssessmentOxygenPolicy MakingPolysomnographySeverity of Illness IndexSleep Apnea SyndromesSleep Medicine SpecialtySocieties, MedicalUnited StatesOxygen

Identifiers

PMID25325601
PMCPMC4224728

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