Compliance with continuous positive airway pressure therapy: assessing and improving treatment outcomes

R Zozula, R Rosen - Current opinion in pulmonary medicine, 2001 - journals.lww.com
… Continuous positive airway pressure compliance also differs … physicians show lower rates
of compliance than those treated … Higher compliance rates at lower pressure settings may be …

Long-term compliance rates to continuous positive airway pressure in obstructive sleep apnea: a population-based study

DD Sin, I Mayers, GCW Man, L Pawluk - Chest, 2002 - Elsevier
… it difficult to attribute the excellent CPAP compliance rates directly to the … 15 suggests that
high compliance rates to CPAP can be … report on the CPAP compliance rate in these subjects. …

Predictors of long-term compliance with continuous positive airway pressure

M Kohler, D Smith, V Tippett, JR Stradling - Thorax, 2010 - thorax.bmj.com
airway pressure (CPAP) therapy versus time according to oxygen desaturation index (ODI)
groups (n=639). Adherence rates at … adherence rates and predictors of long-term compliance

Compliance rates in children using noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure

AR O'Donnell, CL Bjornson, SG Bohn, VG Kirk - Sleep, 2006 - academic.oup.com
rates between 4.7 and 6.3 hours a night. The excellent implementation rate and reasonable
compliance rate … term compliance with nasal continuous positive airway pressure treatment …

Pressure-relief continuous positive airway pressure vs constant continuous positive airway pressure: a comparison of efficacy and compliance

G Nilius, A Happel, U Domanski, KH Ruhle - Chest, 2006 - Elsevier
… humidification ameliorates this problem and improves the compliance rate. A … the airway
pressure pattern. Automated CPAP devices measure airway obstruction and lower the pressure

Adherence to continuous positive airway pressure therapy: the challenge to effective treatment

TE Weaver, RR Grunstein - Proceedings of the American Thoracic …, 2008 - atsjournals.org
… For example, an examination of the effect of nightly duration on 5-year survival rates found …
as device miniaturization, pressure ramp settings, or provision of objective compliance data to …

Intensive versus standard follow-up to improve continuous positive airway pressure compliance

I Bouloukaki, K Giannadaki, C Mermigkis… - European …, 2014 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… Several factors were important in producing good CPAP compliance in the intensive group.
First, our follow-up programme was designed to maximise the compliance rate over the long-…

Effective compliance during the first 3 months of continuous positive airway pressure: a European prospective study of 121 patients

JL Pepin, J Krieger, D Rodenstein… - American journal of …, 1999 - atsjournals.org
… the high rate of use of nCPAP and the high percentage of compliant patients. The daily rate
of … We acknowledge that the MC + subgroup of patients tended to be more compliant. This …

Long‐term compliance with continuous positive airway pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

N Wolkove, M Baltzan, H Kamel… - Canadian respiratory …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… Second, we assessed compliance rates differently by calculating not only how many
patients continued CPAP therapy after its initiation, but also by determining the proportion of …

Continuous positive airway pressure treatment for sleep apnoea: compliance increases with time in continuing users

M Sucena, G Liistro, G Aubert… - European …, 2006 - Eur Respiratory Soc
compliance, but all of the studies utilised relatively short periods of follow-up that did not exceed
a few years. The mean annual ratecompliance with continuous positive airway pressure