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Sleep Specialty Consultation: Improving Management of Sleep Disorders
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Sleep Specialty Consultation for Sleep Disorders. Completed, enrolled 156 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Sleep disorders are prevalent health problems that reduce quality of life, increase risks for medical disease, and enhance healthcare costs/utilization. Only a small proportion of these cases are diagnosed in primary care. Pilot data from this VA suggest that sleep disorders are not adequately managed in a primary care setting: 33% of veterans with an insomnia complaint had an undiagnosed primary sleep disorder (e.g., sleep apnea), and 50% of these patients were prescribed pharmacologic treatment for insomnia by their primary care providers.
Study Details
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Interventions
The Sleep Specialty Consultation (SSC) consisted of: (1) a thorough sleep disorders evaluation accomplished via a clinician-administered structured interview designed to assess specific symptoms of global sleep disorder categories, review of a sleep history questionnaire, and review of available (CPRS) medical/psychiatric electronic records; (2) education about the specific sleep disorders diagnoses and relevant treatment recommendations provided to the patients; and (3) standardized diagnostic information and treatment recommendations provided to the participants' primary care providers.