Misdiagnosing sleep disorders as primary psychiatric conditions

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-77

  Stores, Gregory ^a  

^a Park Hospital for Children Oxford   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; MENTAL DISEASE; NARCOLEPSY; PARASOMNIA; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; RISK; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SOMNOLENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0037242261     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.9.1.69     Document Type: Review

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