Investigating Cost Implications of Incorporating Level III At-Home Testing into a Polysomnography Based Sleep Medicine Program Using Administrative Data

Table 2

Patient demographics (overall and by diagnostic pathway). Continuous variables are presented as mean (sd), with categorical variables presented as counts and proportions.

	Overall	Sleep lab (SL)	Home management (HM)
	Mean (sd)	Mean (sd)	Mean (sd)
BMI	34.08 (8.2)	34.47 (8.8)	33.41 (7)
ESS	10.28 (5.1)	9.92 (5.2)	10.9 (4.9)
Age	52.56 (13.9)	53.15 (14.3)	51.55 (13)
AHI	28.56 (29.8)	29.05 (32.8)	27.76 (23.9)
	Count	Count (%)	Count (%)
Gender
Male	6492	4205 (66)	2287 (63)
Female	3523	2165 (34)	1358 (37)
BMI
	874	598 (10)	276 (8)
	2216	1353 (23)	863 (26)
	2571	1539 (26)	1032 (31)
	1726	1081 (18)	645 (19)
40+	1845	1310 (22)	535 (16)
AHI
	1689	1303 (23)	386 (11)
	2508	1521 (26)	987 (27)
	2049	1054 (18)	995 (28)
30+	3130	1904 (33)	1226 (34)
ESS
	2505	1767 (29)	738 (21)
	2468	1600 (26)	868 (25)
	2929	1737 (29)	1192 (34)
15+	1628	951 (16)	677 (19)