Management Setting of Obstructive Sleep Apnea—Reply

Sleep Medicine Board Certification Status of Physicians and American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep Center Accreditation Improves Healthcare Outcomes in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients Treated with Positive Pressure Therapy. It's Not Complicated!

“…It appears that what was once not so complicated is, in fact, now complicated and controversial. [7][8][9] In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Parthasarathy and colleagues 10 deploy a multicenter prospective comparative effectiveness approach to assess the effect of sleep medicine board certifi cation of physicians and AASM accreditation of sleep centers on selected patient centered clinical outcomes in a cohort of 502 subjects with OSA diagnosed by polysomnography conducted in the United States. The primary end point for analysis was objectively derived adherence to positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy.…”