Aetna considers pharyngeal and lingual tonsillectomy medically necessary as an isolated procedure in adult OSA where hypertrophied tonsils compromise the airway space. A tonsillectomy is also considered medically necessary with UPPP in members who meet medical necessity criteria for UPPP below. An adenoidec...
Procedure Providers and patients are consented by the assessment team prior to participation. All participants are informed that they can withdraw from the study at any time. All patients are compensated for their participation, and providers are compensated if permitted by their CMHC. The assessments...
Clinical procedure is not (and perhaps will never be) at the stage where computers will fully take the wheel—at this time it is prudent to foster tools for enabling clinical decision support, rather than attempt to replace clinician decision making entirely. Our clinician-in-the-loop framework...
using an L2-regularized (C = 1) logistic regression, in a fivefold cross-validation procedure. In each fold, all the trials were shuffled in a pseudorandomized manner and split
2.3. Procedure After reading and signing the informed consent form, all participants were asked to answer the Spanish version [42] of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire [43]. Both the informed consent and the questionnaire were applied at the training site and before beginning...
measured the tonsil size and ANR following the procedure previously used [30]. 2.5. Home Sleep Apnea Tests Unattended nocturnal SpO2 and snoring signals were recorded in a home environment. The caregivers were shown how to simultaneously start a wearable wrist pulse oximeter (3100 WristOx, Nonin ...
Sleep is a necessary procedure that helps your body and mind to replenish, allowing you to wake up refreshed and aware. A good night’s sleep helps the body stay healthy and avoid ailments.MEMORY PROCESSIt is commonly believed that sleep must aid in the establishment of long-term memory as...
A unique code, important for establishing confidentiality, was used to match each respondent. According to the study objective, we excluded participants who work off-site, and those whose shift work situation was ‘others’, as we considered they were not our target group. Also, individuals with...
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