The Effect of the Transition to Home Monitoring for the Diagnosis of OSAS on Test Availability, Waiting Time, Patients’ Satisfaction, and Outcome in a Large Health Provider System

Table 1

Summary of the patients’ satisfaction questionnaires.

Question	Home	Lab-PSG	𝑃 value
From scale 0 to 10, how uncomfortable was to sleep while being connected to the device?; (the higher the result is, the more uncomfortable it is)	2.7	4.1	0.11
How much do you think the study result is true? (0–10)	6.9	7.1	0.84
How much does the diagnostic process influence your decision for treatment? (0–10)	8.9	8	0.14
Estimate your satisfaction from the diagnostic process (0–10)	7.5	8.6	0.2
Do you prefer in-lab or home study?; (percent of patients who prefer home study)	72%	56%	0.05*

^∗𝑃<0.05.