Compliance?

What does it mean when you refer to a percentage of compliance?

Thanks!

4Katie,
I think it means the amount of time your are using your CPAP--number of nights and hours per night. After it is averaged out over a period of time this would be the percentage of that time you were compliant with use of your equipment. Usually the DMEs want to know this data for insurance purposes. In fact the compliance data is usually all they are interested in. I was more interested in the over-all data which provides the daily details such as apneas, hypopneas, snore indexes, flow limitations, and what pressures the machine had to run at to correct these. So I was pleasantly surprised yesterday when I found a package that my husband had ordered for me from CPAP.com containing the Encore Pro software and smart card reader. Now I can find all this out--of course, I've got to figure out how to read the data and make the right conclusions. I just finished my first download and it is very interesting. Everyone on this forum is so helpful and I have gleaned so much info about interpreting the readings from the software just by reading the various posts from the smart ones like Derek, Wader, SWS (while he was still around) and of course Rested Gal always comes through for me.
My post is too long, but hopefully I was of some help in addition to bragging about my new software that I had been wanting.
Hope you have a good night with restful sleep.

:::tangerining with the data collection:::

There's some sort of connector port on the back of my REMStar Plus - what's that there for?

Thanks, felineperson!