TY - JOUR T1 - Sleep medicine certification for physicians in Spain JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1189 LP - 1191 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00188314 VL - 45 IS - 4 AU - Josep M. Montserrat AU - Joaquin Terán-Santos AU - F. Javier Puertas Y1 - 2015/04/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/4/1189.abstract N2 - Sleep medicine is a rapidly growing field. At present, there is a lack of standardisation and the quality of clinical decisions may vary widely. The best way to resolve this problem is to establish a procedure for certification, for both centres and physicians [1]. However, the implementation of a procedure of this kind is difficult, for a variety of reasons; for example, the wide range of criteria applied by different professional societies and the apparent perception that sleep diseases belong to different medical specialties. To date, several procedures have been developed to perform the certification process. In some countries, for instance, the USA [1–3], sleep medicine is considered an independent medical subspecialty, and in Germany [4, 5] and Saudi Arabia [6], its status as a subspecialty has been officially acknowledged. In other countries, expertise is certified by scientific societies or academic institutions. The European Sleep Research Society started to certify sleep physicians in 2012 and it recently published its catalogue for sleep medicine certification [7, 8].There should be a procedure for certification of sleep centres and physicians http://ow.ly/HLGm3 ER -