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Feasibility of Portable Sleep Monitors to Detect Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in a Vulnerable Urban Population

Jillian Nickerson, Euny Lee, Michael Nedelman, R. Nisha Aurora, Ana Krieger and Carol R. Horowitz
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2015, 28 (2) 257-264; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.02.140273
Jillian Nickerson
From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (JN, CRH), New York, NY; Grameen Primacare (EL), New York, NY; Stanford University School of Medicine (MN), Palo Alto, CA; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (RNA), and Weill Cornell School of Medicine (AK), Baltimore, MD.
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Euny Lee
From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (JN, CRH), New York, NY; Grameen Primacare (EL), New York, NY; Stanford University School of Medicine (MN), Palo Alto, CA; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (RNA), and Weill Cornell School of Medicine (AK), Baltimore, MD.
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Michael Nedelman
From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (JN, CRH), New York, NY; Grameen Primacare (EL), New York, NY; Stanford University School of Medicine (MN), Palo Alto, CA; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (RNA), and Weill Cornell School of Medicine (AK), Baltimore, MD.
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R. Nisha Aurora
From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (JN, CRH), New York, NY; Grameen Primacare (EL), New York, NY; Stanford University School of Medicine (MN), Palo Alto, CA; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (RNA), and Weill Cornell School of Medicine (AK), Baltimore, MD.
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Ana Krieger
From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (JN, CRH), New York, NY; Grameen Primacare (EL), New York, NY; Stanford University School of Medicine (MN), Palo Alto, CA; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (RNA), and Weill Cornell School of Medicine (AK), Baltimore, MD.
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Carol R. Horowitz
From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (JN, CRH), New York, NY; Grameen Primacare (EL), New York, NY; Stanford University School of Medicine (MN), Palo Alto, CA; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (RNA), and Weill Cornell School of Medicine (AK), Baltimore, MD.
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Jillian Nickerson, Euny Lee, Michael Nedelman, R. Nisha Aurora, Ana Krieger, Carol R. Horowitz
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