Comparison of Diagnostic Sleep Studies in Hospitalized Neurorehabilitation Patients With Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: OSA is prevalent during a time of critical neural repair after traumatic brain injury (TBI). The diagnostic utility of existing sleep studies is needed to inform clinical management during acute recovery from TBI. RESEARCH QUESTION: This study aimed to evaluate the non-inferiority and diagnostic accuracy of a portable level 3 sleep study relative to level 1 polysomnography in hospitalized neurorehabilitation patients with TBI. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: This is a prospective clinical trial conducted at six TBI Model System study sites between May 2017 and February 2019. Of 896 admissions, 449 were screened and eligible for the trial, with 345 consented. Additional screening left 263 eligible for and completing simultaneous administration of both level 1 and level 3 sleep studies, with final analyses completed on 214 (median age = 42 years; ED Glasgow Coma Scale = 6; time to polysomnography [PSG] = 52 days). RESULTS: Agreement was moderate to strong (weighted kappa = 0.78, 95% CI, 0.72-0.83) with the misclassification commonly occurring with mild sleep apnea due to underestimation of apnea hypopnea index (AHI). Most of those with moderate to severe sleep apnea were correctly classified (n = 54/72). Non-inferiority was not demonstrated: the minimum tolerable specificity of 0.5 was achieved across all AHI cutoff scores (lower confidence limits [LCL] range, 0.807-0.943), but the minimum tolerable sensitivity of 0.8 was not (LCL range, 0.665-0.764). INTERPRETATION: Although the non-inferiority of level 3 portable diagnostic testing relative to level 1 was not established, strong agreement was seen across sleep apnea indexes. Most of those with moderate to severe sleep apnea were correctly identified; however, there was risk of misclassification with level 3 sleep studies underestimating disease severity for those with moderate to severe AHI and disease presence for those with mild AHI during early TBI neurorehabilitation.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.027 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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