Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Primary Care. Ready or Not?

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

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

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Primary care versus sleep specialist pathways for obstructive sleep apnea with home testing: access, adherence, and treatment personalization.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026
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2. A new tool to screen patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea in the primary care setting: a prospective multicenter study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2022
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3. Which older adults receive sleep medicine specialty care? Predictors of being seen by a board-certified sleep medicine provider.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020
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4. Primary care and sleep unit agreement in management decisions for sleep apnea: a prospective study in Spain.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020
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5. Coordinated program between primary care and sleep unit for the management of obstructive sleep apnea.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2019
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6. New organisation for follow-up and assessment of treatment efficacy in sleep apnoea.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2019
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Corrections and comments

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  Primary Care Physicians Can Comprehensively Manage Patients with Sleep Apnea. A Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial.2018

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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