SLEEP-EVAL© RESEARCH

Sleep Epidemiology Research & Sleep-EVALTM Diagnosis Expert System

Stanford Sleep Epidemiology Journal

Stanford Sleep Epidemiology Research Center (SSERC)

Psy-EVAL Research

 

"Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted."
 Albert Einstein

 

Research Aims

First created | 05/04/2009

Last edited   | 11/04/2011

Adapted by Maurice M. Ohayon, MD, DSc, PhD

Reference to cite: Sleep-EVAL™, Knowledge Based System for the Diagnosis of Sleep and Mental Disorders. Registration #437699, Copyright Office, Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Ottawa: Industry Canada, 1994. (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Korean, Polish, Swedish, and Chinese versions ©1992-2001, 2002-2010, 2011 MM Ohayon.


The Sleep-EVAL Research is a scientific program which was launched in 1990

 

Based on the scarcity of data on Sleep Disorders in the general population, several objectives were set:

Through surveys of  the General Population:

  • To document sleep habits and sleep patterns of the general population

  • To describe the sleep disorders of the general

  •  population in terms of prevalence, co-morbidity

  • To identify the risk factors of sleep disorders, their association with psychiatric and organic diseases

  • To investigate how sleep disorders are identified and treated

  • To evaluate the Public Health consequences of sleep disorders.

 

Through clinical studies:

  • To improve the identification criteria of sleep disorders

  • To improve the evaluation and the diagnosis of sleep disorders

  • To improve the evaluation of treatment.

 

To fulfill these objectives, a new investigation tool was created.

This tool was named Sleep-EVAL.

It is an expert system, specialized in the field of Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry, able to make diagnoses.

Its knowledge of the main organic diseases and pharmacological drugs provides a multitude of information on the way individuals are identified and treated.

Consequently, it was allowing the identification of the Public Health needs of the general population.

 

Sleep-EVAL™, Knowledge Based System for the Diagnosis of Sleep and Mental Disorders. Registration #437699, Copyright Office, Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Ottawa: Industry Canada, 1994. (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Korean, Polish, Swedish, and Chinese versions ©1992-2001, 2002-2010, 2011.

More Information

 

Research Aims
The Sleep-EVAL Research is a scientific program which was launched in 1990

 

Sleep Epidemiology
Various epidemiological studies have been conducted in the last fifteen years in the general population, still, many domains in the field of sleep epidemiology remain to be explored, in particular the repercussions of poor sleep on society

 

Questioning your sleep
Is it normal to sleep so much, so little, to snore, to scream, to walk, to kick, to punch during sleep?

 

Public Health Issues
It is estimated that sleep disorders, sleep deprivation, and sleepiness added $16 billion to the U.S. national health care bill in the early 1990’s