Table 1

Outcome measures collection points

Baseline3 months1 year
Adherence to therapy

  • PAP adherence

✓✓
Daytime sleepiness

  • Epworth Sleepiness Scale

✓✓✓
Health-related quality of life/utility score

  • Health-Utilities Index

  • Sleep Apnoea Quality of Life Index

✓✓✓
Patient satisfaction

  • Visit-Specific Satisfaction Instrument 9

✓✓
Demand for sleep provider visits and diagnostic testing

  • Number of ACP visits

  • Number of sleep physician visits

  • Number of HSATs and PSGs

  • Physician time spent per patient during ACP clinic (time-in-motion study)

 − −✓−*
Healthcare usage

  • Number of outpatient physician visits

  • Number of hospitalisations

  • Number of emergency department/urgent care visits

✓
Healthcare costs

  • Healthcare usage costs

  • HSAT and PSG

  • Treatment costs

✓
Wait times

  • Time from referral to initiation of therapy

−−−*

  • *Outcomes will be collected throughout the study.

  • ACP, alternative care provider; HSAT, home sleep apnoea testing; PAP, positive airway pressure; PSGs, polysomnograms.