American Academy of Sleep Medicine

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The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is an American medical society specializing in sleep medicine . It was founded in 1975, has approximately 10,000 members and is based in Darien, Illinois .

The AASM operates a procedure for the accreditation of sleep laboratories and sleep medicine facilities, in which around 2,000 facilities are now participating. The aim of the procedure is to ensure and improve the quality of patient care in sleep medicine. The first accredited sleep laboratory in the USA has been the "Sleep-Wake Disorders Center" of the Neurology Department of the Montefiore Medical Center in New York since April 27, 1977 .

Goal setting

The purpose of the association is to support members and improve health care in the field of sleep medicine. For this purpose, clinical standards for the field of sleep medicine are developed and published.

membership

Members are doctors, researchers, and other health professionals who specialize in the research, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders . Accredited institutions can also become members.

Emergence

The organization was initially called the Association of Sleep Disorders Centers (ASDC). William C. Dement was its president for the first 12 years. In late 1984 the Clinical Sleep Society (CSS) was founded for individuals interested in the clinical aspects of sleep and sleep disorders. As of September 1987, the ASDC-CSS became the “American Sleep Disorders Association” (ASDA) with the two branches “Facilities” and “Individuals”. In 1999 the name was changed to "American Academy of Sleep Medicine" (AASM).

Publications

The AASM publishes insights into sleep medicine in two peer-reviewed journals . The "Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine" is the official bi-monthly publication of the AASM. The "Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine" had an impact factor of 2.928 in 2012 and was 63rd out of 191 journals in the clinical neurology category .

The journal “Sleep” is published monthly, also uses a peer review and is published in cooperation with the Sleep Research Society, a professional association founded in 1961, which is mainly dedicated to the study of sleep and sleep disorders as well as the education and training of future sleep researchers . The impact factor of “Sleep” in 2012 was 5,100. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks 16th out of 191 journals in the clinical neurology category.

The AASM has also published the International Classification of Sleep Disorders - Second Edition (ICSD-2).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Standards for the accreditation of sleep medicine facilities , (PDF, 214 kB), accessed on January 11, 2013.
  2. ^ A b John W. Shepard Jr, Daniel J. Buysse et al: History of the Development of Sleep Medicine in the United States . In: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine . Volume 1, No. 1 , 2005, p. 61-82 , PMID 17561617 (English).
  3. ^ Website of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Medical Center, New York, accessed January 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports Science Edition, 2012.
  5. ↑ American Academy of Sleep Medicine: International classification of sleep disorders, 2nd edn .: Diagnostic and coding manual . Westchester, USA, Illinois 2005 (English).