TY - JOUR T1 - <span hwp:id="article-title-1" class="article-title">Nurse-led care was non-inferior to physician-directed care in symptomatic moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea</span><span hwp:id="article-title-2" class="sub-article-title">Commentary</span> JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 112 LP - 112 DO - 10.1136/ebn.12.4.112 VL - 12 IS - 4 AU - Judith A Floyd Y1 - 2009/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/12/4/112.abstract N2 - Is nurse-led care non-inferior to physician-directed care in patients with symptomatic moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)? Design: randomised controlled trial (RCT). ACTRN 012605000064606. Allocation: concealed. Blinding: blinded (research assistants). Follow-up period: 3 months. Setting: 3 academic sleep medicine services in Australia. Patients: 195 patients (mean age 50 y, 74% men) 18–75 years of age, who had Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) scores ⩾8, history of snoring “most nights” or “every night,” and oxygen saturation (SaO2) dip &gt;2% at a rate of &gt;27 dips/hour. Exclusion criteria were unstable cardiovascular disease, neuromuscular disease affecting or potentially affecting respiratory muscles, moderate to severe respiratory disease or documented hypoxemia or awake SaO2 &lt;92%, and psychiatric disease. Intervention: nurse-led care (n = 100) or physician-directed care (n = 95). Nurse-led care involved autotitrating CPAP between 4 and 20 cm H2O for 4 consecutive … ER -