Microsleep and sleepiness: A comparison of multiple sleep latency test and scoring of microsleep as a diagnostic test for excessive daytime sleepiness

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-67

  Tirunahari, Vijaya L ^a   Zaidi, Syed A ^a   Sharma, Rakesh ^a   Skurnick, Joan ^a   Ashtyani, Hormoz ^a  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Excessive daytime sleepiness; Microsleep; Polysomnography

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; PERFORMANCE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP PATTERN; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0037214628     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1389-9457(02)00250-2     Document Type: Article

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