AASM Quality Measures for Sleep Medicine
New guidelines for insomnia, narcolepsy, OSA, and RLS
April 28, 2015|Neurology
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The American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s new quality measures guidelines for improving care in sleep medicine include: caring for adult patients with restless legs syndrome, insomnia, narcolepsy, and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA); and caring for pediatric patients with OSA.
The evidence-based guidelines include a literature review and recommendations to improve diagnostic accuracies, decrease symptom severity, and minimize treatment complications.
The complete series of 6 quality measures is available here on the AASM’s website.
Citation: Morgenthaler TI, Aronsky AJ, Carden KA, Chervin RD, Thomas SM, Watson NF. Measurement of quality to improve care in sleep medicine. J Clin Sleep Med. 2015;11(3):279-291. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.4548.