Database application for patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) results from upper airway collapse during sleep. It represents an increasingly recognized pathology associated with many diseases. Herein, we describe a database for patients with OSAS. This has different goals: to facilitate good uniformity in clinical assessment, to allow the use of the application even by non-ENT specialists, to evaluate the results of medical and/or surgical treatments and to enable a statistical meta-analysis derived from the data collected in many OSAS medical centres.