Boston—A database analysis comprising more than 25,000 patients has concluded that the STOP-BANG questionnaire has cross-sectional construct validity, in that greater proportions of patients with intermediate and high STOP-BANG risk scores had known diagnoses of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Despite this positive finding, the study also revealed that STOP-BANG risk strata had only weak correlations with other patient health and comorbidity indexes, and had low predictive validity for