Table 2.

Untreated OSAS significantly diminishes patient quality of life.

Condition	Quantified risk	Quantified costs	Reference
Home	Patients with sleep apnea have an impaired quality of life that affects both the patient and family members. Quality of life improves with treatment.	Not applicable	Finn 199866 Baldwin 200167 Breugelmans 200469 Siccoli 200822 Warkentin 2014106
Workplace	Patients with OSAS are about ten times more likely to have workplace disability. This has the potential of increasing costs to employers in the realms of reduced productivity, healthcare costs and liability in the event of accidents.	The cost of absenteeism is difficult to calculate but, Hoffman et al. found that treating OSAS patients with CPAP reduced the % of Commercial Drivers taking short-term disability by 50%	Omachi 200981 Vennelle 201068 Hoffman 201090