RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Apps and fitness trackers that measure sleep: Are they useful?
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 451
OP 456
DO 10.3949/ccjm.84a.15173
VO 84
IS 6
A1 Meghna P. Mansukhani
A1 Bhanu Prakash Kolla
YR 2017
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/84/6/451.abstract
AB Consumers have become increasingly interested in using fitness trackers and smartphone applications to quantify sleep. The devices claim to measure various sleep parameters, with the result that patients are now showing the data from their devices to their clinicians with concerns about their quantity or quality of sleep. In general, these devices have major shortcomings and limited utility, as they have not been thoroughly evaluated in clinical populations.