Home sleep apnea testing: comparison of manual and automated scoring across international sleep centers

To determine the agreement between the manual scoring of home sleep apnea tests (HSATs) by international sleep technologists and automated scoring systems. Fifteen HSATs, previously recorded using a type 3 monitor, were saved in European Data Format. The studies were scored by nine experienced technologists from the sleep centers of the Sleep Apnea Global Interdisciplinary Consortium (SAGIC) using the locally available software. Each study was...