COMPLEX HOME MONITORING

As the demand for sleep evaluations rises, one response has been to co nduct such studies in the home. In this brief review, complex home sle ep monitoring systems (those recording at least four channels of physi ologic data) on which there is peer-reviewed data are assessed. Four c urrently available systems met these criteria and are discussed. Each such system has clear strengths and weaknesses. These overall data sug gest that home monitoring systems are becoming increasingly complex an d more successful in monitoring the desired variables. This trend is l ikely to continue.