Mayos, MercèPeñacoba, PatriciaPedro Pijoan, Anna MaríaSantiveri, CarmeFlor, XavierJuvanteny, JoanSampol, GabrielLloberes, PatriciaAoiz, José IgnacioBayó, JoanGrau Sanmartí, NuriaFortuna, Ana M.Plaza, VicenteLlauger, M. Antònia2021-03-082021-03-082019Mayos M, Peñacoba P, Pijoan AMP, Santiveri C, Flor X, Juvanteny J, et al. Coordinated program between primary care and sleep unit for the management of obstructive sleep apnea. NPJ Prim Care Respir Med. 2019 Nov 8; 29(1): 39. DOI: 10.1038/s41533-019-0151-92055-1010http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46685The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a work model in the primary health-care setting for identifying patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) based on clinical variables and an ambulatory sleep monitoring study. After screening, patients with mild-moderate OSAHS could be managed by primary care physicians, whereas those identified with severe OSAHS would be referred to specialists from sleep units for starting specific treatment. The proposed model does not move the entire health-care process to a generally overburdened primary care level and favors the coordinated work and the necessary flexibility to adapt the model to challenges and perspectives of OSAHS.application/pdfengCopyright © The Author(s) 2019. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.ApneaSíndromes d'apnea del sonSonAtenció primàriainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41533-019-0151-9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess