The sleep of long-haul truck drivers

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 755-761

  Mitler, Merrill M ^a   Miller, James C ^a   Lipsitz, Jeffrey J ^b   Walsh, James K ^c   Wylie, C Dennis ^d  

^a SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

^b Sleep Disord Ctr Metropol Toronto   (Canada)

^c Sleep Medicine and Research Center   (United States)

^d Wylie and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRIVER; DRIVING ABILITY; DROWSINESS; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN;

ADULT; CANADA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TRANSPORTATION; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0030853710     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199709113371106     Document Type: Article

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