Characteristics and treatment patterns of patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) initiating Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) therapy

Study type

• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Other
• If ‘other’, further details on the scope of the study:
  Treatment Exposure

Non-interventional study

• Non-interventional study design:
  Cohort

Study drug and medical condition

• Medical condition to be studied:
  Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome

Population studied

• Age groups:
  Adults (18 to < 46 years)

  Adults (46 to < 65 years)

  Adults (65 to < 75 years)

  Adults (75 to < 85 years)

  Adults (85 years and over)
• Estimated number of subjects:
  391272

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  To examine initiation, short-term (6 months), and long-term (12 and 24 months) adherence patterns to positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy among commercially insured and managed Medicare US patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
• Data analysis plan:
  Descriptive statistics including means and standard deviations for continuous variables and frequencies for categorical values will be computed for all baseline variables including demographics, clinical characteristics, and SDOH data for the overall sample population.

Documents

Study results

ELI_SLEEP_PAP_48x48_2023 Poster_sv3