ReviewChest2015
Pediatric Home Sleep Apnea Testing: Slowly Getting There!
Review in Chest, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 120 citations in OpenAlex.
- Current role of artificial intelligence and machine learning: is their application feasible in pediatric upper airway obstructive disorders?European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Can portable sleep monitors replace polysomnography for diagnosis of pediatric OSA: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2023Pooled it
- Reliability of machine learning to diagnose pediatric obstructive sleep apnea: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Pediatric pulmonology · 2022Pooled it
- The Accuracy of an Ambulatory Level III Sleep Study Compared to a Level I Sleep Study for the Diagnosis of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children With Neuromuscular Disease.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2018Trial
- Exploring nightly variability in sleep apnea and changes in severity classification with multi night sleep testing in a population based cohort of young children.Frontiers in sleep · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence based platform for the automatic and simultaneous explainable detection of apnoea, oxygen desaturation, and artefacts in paediatric polygraphy exams (REST).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Preliminary Estimates of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Video Clips for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children.Pediatric pulmonology · 2025Article
- Article
- Early childhood sleep quality in a pediatric cohort: sex-specific differences.Frontiers in sleep · 2025Article
- Mobile Sleep Lab: Comparison of polysomnographic parameters with a conventional sleep laboratory.PloS one · 2025Article
- Sleep-related breathing disorders in children with spina bifida.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicine · 2024Review
- Paediatric sleep diagnostics in the 21st century: the era of "sleep-omics"?European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2024Review
- Preliminary assessment of portable sleep monitoring for diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea in children.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2024Article
- Diagnosis of Paediatric Obstructive Sleep-Disordered Breathing beyond Polysomnography.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Features of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children with and without Comorbidities.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Sleep Architecture and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders of Seafarers on Board Merchant Ships: A Polysomnographic Pilot Field Study on the High Seas.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Observational
- Telehealth-supported level 2 pediatric home polysomnography.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
- Trends in Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pediatrics.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Comparison of home ambulatory type 2 polysomnography with a portable monitoring device and in-laboratory type 1 polysomnography for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea in children.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
- Airflow Analysis in the Context of Sleep Apnea.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
Pediatric OSA can result in significant neurocognitive, behavioral, cardiovascular, and metabolic morbidities. Prompt diagnosis and treatment are, therefore, of paramount importance. The current gold standard for diagnosis of OSA in children is in-laboratory polysomnography (PSG). Home sleep apnea testing has been considered as an alternative as it is potentially more cost effective, convenient, and accessible. This review concentrates mainly on the use of type 2 and 3 portable monitoring devices. The current evidence on the feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of home testing in the diagnosis of pediatric OSA was examined. Overall, the evidence in children is limited. Feasibility studies that have been performed have on the whole shown good results, with several reporting > 90% of their home recordings as meeting predetermined quality criteria regarding signal artifact and minimum recording time. The limited data comparing type 2 studies with in-laboratory PSG have shown no significant differences in respiratory parameters. The results pertaining to diagnostic accuracy of type 3 home sleep apnea testing devices are conflicting. Although more research is needed, home testing with at least a type 3 portable monitor offers a viable alternative in the diagnosis of otherwise healthy children with moderate to severe OSA, particularly in settings where access to polysomnography is scarce or unavailable. Of note, since most studies have been performed in habitually snoring healthy children, home sleep apnea testing may not be applicable to children with other comorbid conditions. In particular, CO2 monitoring is important in children in whom there is concern regarding nocturnal hypoventilation, such as children with neuromuscular disease, underlying lung disease, or obesity hypoventilation, and most home testing devices do not include a transcutaneous or end-tidal CO2 channel.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.