Posted in: Clinical Adult, Literature Updates
Posted: July 1, 2013
Authors: Chung F, Yang Y, Liao P
Contributors: Frances Chung, Stavros Memtsoudis and Aric Prather
Published: Obes Surg. 2013 Jun 16. [Epub ahead of print]

The STOP-Bang score was validated in 310 obese and morbidly obese surgical patients. For identifying severe OSA, a STOP-Bang score of 4 has high sensitivity of 88 %. For confirming severe OSA, a score of 6 is more specific.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23771818