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Article: Researchers at Sultan Qaboos University release new data on health and medicine.
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- February 23, 2009
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In this recent study, researchers in Muscat, Oman conducted a study "To audit the sleep service at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH), Muscat, Oman, and to explore deficiencies to introduce new measures of improvement. Polysomnography (PSG) reports and SQUH medical records of all patients who underwent sleep studies from January 1995 to December 2006 in the sleep laboratory at SQUH were reviewed and analyzed."
"Out of a total of 1042 sleep studies conducted in the specified period, 768 PSG recordings were valid for analysis. The audit showed that the Otolaryngology Department was the main referring specialty for PSG (43%). Snoring was the main symptom for ...