Editor,—If sleep studies are worth doing, they are worth doing well. The study of sleep disordered breathing is another area of paediatrics that the UK has stumbled to embrace.1 ,2 Sleep medicine has exponentially increased in adults in recent years, yet in paediatrics many questions remain unanswered.

Although van Someren and colleagues made a valiant attempt to answer an important question,3 they did so by assessing clinical scores in relation to …