As the leader in promoting excellence in sleep medicine health care, education and research, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) formed the Portable Monitoring Task Force as part of a comprehensive initiative to address the role of unattended portable monitoring (PM) in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Using evidence review and a consensus process, the AASM task force developed clinical guidelines that were approved by the AASM board of directors and published in the December 15, 2007, issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. The guidelines recommend the use of PM by AASM-accredit