BSC’s Brendan Keenan co-authors paper on Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)

One of the areas of our expertise is Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). Brendan Keenan was lead author on this article evaluating a diagnostic code-based algorithm for identifying cases of diagnosed OSA.

This paper, Multisite validation of a simple electronic health record algorithm for identifying diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea, was published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.

In this study, Brendan worked with collaborators at six health systems in the U.S. to develop and validate an EHR-based algorithm for the identification of diagnosed cases of OSA and, conversely, undiagnosed non-cases. The algorithm performed extremely well across participating sites.

This algorithm has a wide range of applications, including monitoring quality and utilization metrics, clinical epidemiology, and genetic association studies.

Read more about his work here: https://dx.doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.8160.