Telemedici ne Management of Veterans With Newly Diagnosed Obstructiv e Sleep Apnea (OSA)

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Conditions studied: Obstructive Sleep Apnea

In brief

Automatically titrating continuous positive airway pressure (APAP) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) are considered first-line treatments for obstructive sleep apnea. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that early patient education and intervention may improve adherence with positive airway pressure. The investigators plan a prospective, randomized trial to see if telemonitoring in the first several weeks of PAP therapy improves adherence following 3 months of treatment.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02159885

Run by

Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center

People needed

53

Starts

2014-04-01

Expected to finish

2016-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-08-10

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Male and female veterans at least 18 years of age.
• Ability to read and speak English (assessment instruments and therapy will be available only in English).
• AHI> 5 on baseline home sleep study
• Agree to initiate automatically titrating continuous positive airway pressure (APAP) therapy.
• Completion of clinic questionnaires during initial sleep evaluation

You may not qualify if…

• Unwilling to provide informed consent.
• Lack of English fluency. This will be determined when potential subjects are contacted by phone. If they are able to understand the oral consent by correctly completing the mini-quiz, English fluency will be established.
• No telephone access
• Patients previously treated with positive airway pressure.
• Patients enrolled in ongoing VA sleep research studies. Currently all patients enrolled in VA sleep research studies already have their charts flagged.
• Patients receiving their sleep care at VA medical centers other than PVAMC, Fort Dix, Gloucester and Victor J. Saracini (Willow Grove).
• Patients initiated on positive airway pressure treatment while in-patients will also be excluded.
• Patients who are set up with APAP machines without modems will also be excluded.

Where it is running

• Philadelphia VAMC — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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