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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">JOHS</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Journ of Health Scien</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of HealthCare Sciences</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Journ of Health Scien</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn>
      <issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">33</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.52533/JOHS.2021.1506</article-id>
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      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Family Medicine</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screening Tools Effectiveness and Its Use in Primary Care&#13;
</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>AlFahhad</surname>
            <given-names>Noor</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alsahli</surname>
            <given-names>Yousef</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Joharji</surname>
            <given-names>Ahmad</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Aldhwain</surname>
            <given-names>Saleh</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alrashedi</surname>
            <given-names>Amani</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alghasham</surname>
            <given-names>Khuzama</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alharbi</surname>
            <given-names>Abdulrahman</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Jambi</surname>
            <given-names>Hanin</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Allihyibi</surname>
            <given-names>Rawan</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alghanmi</surname>
            <given-names>Amal</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Edrees</surname>
            <given-names>Fahad</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2021</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>6</issue>
      <fpage>154</fpage>
      <lpage>159</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>To diagnose obstructive sleep apnea, polysomnography has been widely used as the gold standard diagnostic modality to successfully achieve this purpose. However, the modality has been reported to be time-consuming and costly, and therefore, other substitutes have been reported in the literature as valid tools that are also cost-effective, and can successfully replace polysomnography. The highest sensitivity rates were associated with the STOP-BANG questionnaire for detecting mild and severe cases with obstructive sleep apnea. However, the highest sensitivity was associated with the Berlin questionnaire for detecting both degrees of obstructive sleep apnea. For moderate cases, the highest specificity and sensitivity rates were reported with the STOP questionnaire. However, it should be noted that there are huge variations between the different studies in the literature, and therefore, further studies with a better definition of hypopnea and valid comparative findings of the different tools are urgently needed, and until then, the current findings should be interpreted with caution.&#13;
</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>obstructive sleep apnea</kwd>
        <kwd> screening</kwd>
        <kwd> sensitivity</kwd>
        <kwd> validation</kwd>
        <kwd> questionnaire</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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