TY  - RPRT
TI  - Organisation of diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: an international comparison
AU  - Roberfroid Dominique
AU  - De Laet Chris
AU  - Devos Carl
AU  - Thiry Nancy
AB  - KCE Reports 330C (2020)

The obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome is quite a common sleeping disorder – one for which nearly 140,000 people are currently being treated in Belgium. The treatment most typically uses a “CPAP” (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) device, which insufflates air into the respiratory tract whilst the person is sleeping. For its cost to be reimbursed in Belgium, this treatment systematically calls for a night of tests in the sleep laboratory, in a hospital, to confirm the diagnosis, whereupon another night in hospital is most often deemed necessary to adjust the treatment.
T2  - KCE Reports
CY  - Brussels
PY  - 2020
LA  - Engels
M3  - Health Services Research (HSR)
PB  - Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (KCE)
SN  - 330
VO  - D/2020/10.273/10
DO  - https://doi.org/10.57598/R330C
ER -