Monitoring the occurrence of apneic and hypopneic arousals (US6363270)


	Parent Case:			This is a continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 08/894,093, filed on Dec. 22, 1997, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
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	First Claim: Show all 14 claims			What is claimed is: 1. A method for the determination for a patient of an index of sleep quality, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining two or more signals from the patient, each signal representative of a physiological variable; correlating said two or more signals; and recording instances where there is a coincident change in said correlated signals, the number of instances of coincidence being proportional to said index, and the number of instances of coincidence being scaled linearly to give said index.
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