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I'm conducting a poll on a few different forums to gage genuine interest in the area of home testing. Here is the poll question:

If a functional and effective method of attended home testing was available to you as an alternative to having to go to a facility would you prefer to have the study done in the comfort of your home? To clarify, all of the same equipment (including video and audio monitoring) and all of the same leads and sensors used in a lab setting would be used during these tests to ensure lab quality results. Taking the appropriate equipment to you is quite easy if done correctly and there is virtually no equipment set up time. In addition, all tests would be run and fully attended by a nationally registered sleep tech which can not be said for the vast majority of labs which have unregistered techs on their payroll.

I would appreciate an initial YES or NO answer, but would welcome any questions or comments. Please only one response per member.

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As long as someone else familiar was in the house such as a husband, good friend, other family member and the "attendant" was licensed and insured it not only wouldn't bother me at all it would be preferable to the in-lab.
I wonder what would happen if the tech came in to the home and the house was in such a state that THEY were not comfortable?

Examples, shady characters hanging around, house in shambles, house in disrepair, the list could go on.

If a female tech, they are as vulernable as the patient. Personally, I still don't like the idea -- too many unknown factors that are out of the control of either the patient and/or the tech.
Eh, Rester, if you want to come to Michigan I'll be your first volunteer. If you're allergic to dogs and cats - fergeddit.
I have a whole line up of friends and family out here in California that I want to put to the test.
Hey folks,
Great replies so far and I'm enjoying the challenging questions. Let me try to answer a few.

1. All techs absolutely should be insured for liability reasons.
2. If hiring and training are done by someone dedicated to quality and with the patients best interest in mind, then the professionalism of the REGISTERED techs hired should reduce if not eliminate some of the undesirable circumstances mentioned. Personally, I have a process in place to provide proof of no wrong doing on the part of my techs.
3. There will obviously be a certain amount of resistance toward this method of testing, but new methods are always questioned and rightly so.
4. If you feel as though your living situation is just not conducive to having a home study done....so be it, but you must keep in mind that the entire purpose is to recreate the most "normal" night of sleep for the patient. Does reporting to a strange facility and sleeping on a strange bed really accomplish this? Also, there are certain types of sleep disorders that are directly related to a patients sleeping environment. Food for thought!
5. There are ways of increasing saftey for patient and tech alike. (I apologize, but I can not give away too much)

I again appreciate the feedback and hope that more folks will post. Sleep tight!
I am in education and you wouldn't believe the stuff we go through before we get our license and don't imagine that sleep techs go through any more than we do. Here is what we go through --The state does an extensive background check / fingerprint check before we can even visit the schools to observe (while in college). Then when it is time to student teach -- we go through another round of fingerprint / background checks before we are allowed to student teach. Then prior to obtaining certification there is still another round of background checks. THEN each time you are employed by a district you go through the whole process again. So that is a total of at least four extensive backgound checks before you enter your classroom the first time. My son went through the process (along with his new wife) when they graduated from college and thus had 3 extensive background checks in less than a year. His first was a year or so before that when he did observations. He taught in one district for a year then moved to a different district to teach closer to his wife's school. He had to have another background check for the new district.

District's are required to ensure the safety of all students -- yet we have those unsavory type that slip by regardless of all the precautions taken. I know in the last couple of years our area was hit with 3 cases of sexual misconduct -- although all of these had passed the required background checks.

So naturally I am probably more suspicious than most.

If safeguards are in place and the tech the same gender probably there weren't be any problems. I just haven't experienced this type of "seclusion" as some of the others have had with their sleep study. And as my kids are always telling me -- Mom you read too many true crime books and watch too much CSI and Forensic Files. :)

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