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ArticleJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2017

Improving Accuracy of Home Sleep Apnea Testing.

David Claman, Bernie Sunwoo

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Article in Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 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

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

  1. Clinical Use of a Home Sleep Apnea Test: An American Academy of Sleep Medicine Position Statement.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2017
    Guideline
  2. Home sleep apnea testing auto-interpretation.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. International Consensus Statement on Obstructive Sleep Apnea.International forum of allergy & rhinology · 2023
    Review
  6. Clinical Use of a Home Sleep Apnea Test: An Updated American Academy of Sleep Medicine Position Statement.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2018
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David ClamanDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
Bernie SunwooDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

PolysomnographySleep Apnea SyndromesHumansSleepSleep Apnea, Obstructive

Identifiers

PMID27998372
PMCPMC5181621

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