Overnight facility-based polysomnography before the MSLT

the night before the MSLT

tests per year, US, once, the night before the MSLT

“Facility-based PSG is necessary on the night before the MSLT to assess sleep architecture and confirm adequate nocturnal sleep.”

Krahn et al., Recommended protocols for the Multiple Sleep Latency Test and Maintenance of Wakefulness Test in adults: guidance from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, J Clin Sleep Med 2021, 2021-12-01

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Clinical guideline

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2026-11-06

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A home sleep apnea test is not an acceptable substitute, the guidance says. Verbatim on the PMC page; the publisher blocks full-text XML (Europe PMC answers 500, NCBI efetch withholds the body), so only a browser read can check it.

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