Comparison of the maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT) to a modified behavioral test (OSLER) in the evaluation of daytime sleepiness

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 407-411

  Krieger, Ana C ^a,b,c   Ayappa, Indu ^a   Norman, Robert G ^a   Rapoport, David M ^a   Walsleben, Joyce ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Daytime testing; Maintenance of wakefulness test; Osier test; Sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE OF WAKEFULNESS TEST; MALE; OXFORD SLEEP RESISTANCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RELIABILITY; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP TIME; SOMNOLENCE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 10344265067     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2004.00417.x     Document Type: Article

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