APAP Treatment Acceptance Rate and Cost-Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

"Disclosure The authors declare that they have no competing interests in this work."

"This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82170098)."

"This study was a prospective, single-center, randomized controlled trial. Participants who met the inclusion criteria were required to provide informed consent. The participants were registered, and their basic information and medical history were collected from the medical records. The subjects were randomly divided into telemedicine and control groups and followed up for six months (). The experimental procedures conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki and were approved by the Ethics Review Committee of Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (KY-Q-2021-162-02), and the study was registered at the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (Registration number: ChiCTR2300069870).Figure 1Study flowchart.Abbreviations: HST, Home Sleep Apnea Test; OSA, Obstructive sleep apnea; APAP, Auto-adjusted positive airway pressure."