New Developments in the ORP Technology

I mention regularly how sleep architecture, involving traditional sleep stages, often does not accurately portray the objective sleep quality of a patient undergoing a sleep study. This point is well known in that patients often report sleeping poorly despite a sleep doctor declaring the sleep study looks pretty good.

ORP (Odds Ratio Product) is a software program with much greater sophistication in measuring sleep quality objectively. ORP has been researched for several years, and now they have a dissemination plan that allows a sleep doctor to obtain ORP analysis after the fact of a sleep study already conducted. Just using the software would allow the sleep doctor to reanalyze the data to learn more about the objective quality of the patient’s sleep.

This ORP Link not only has some useful resources to learn about the technology but also an excellent 10 min video summarizing the info. The more patients become aware of this technology, it could trigger a grassroots movement to persuade sleep doctors to more closely examine how objective sleep quality matches up with the patient’s subjective report of sleep quality, a comparison often lacking much precision at many sleep centers and labs.