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  • Healthcare Policy
  • Public Health

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted healthcare systems, reducing capacity for conditions like sleep disordered breathing.
  • Concerns arose regarding the safety and accessibility of traditional in-lab sleep testing during the pandemic.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the pandemic's effect on sleep disordered breathing assessment and related service utilization.
  • To compare the utilization trends of home-based versus in-lab sleep testing.

Main Methods:

  • Extracted sleep testing claims from January 2019 to June 2021 from a national healthcare database.
  • Employed logistic regression to assess associations between testing type, treatment, and clinical visits.
  • Utilized Cox proportional hazards models to evaluate time to treatment and factors influencing definitive home-based testing.

Main Results:

  • Home-based testing utilization increased by 134% by Q2 2021, while in-lab testing decreased to 61% of initial levels.
  • Patients using home-based testing were less likely to have a clinical visit for sleep apnea but showed similar treatment likelihood.
  • Initial testing in 2021 and later home-based testing (Q4 2019 onwards) correlated with faster treatment and more definitive results, respectively.

Conclusions:

  • Home-based sleep testing adoption surged and persisted post-2020.
  • Home-based testing demonstrated a faster time to treatment compared to initial in-lab testing.