Sleep and wakefulness disturbances in Swiss pharmacy customers

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 136, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 149-154

  Schwegler, Kyrill ^a   Klaghofer, Richard ^a   Nirkko, Arto C ^b   Mathis, Johannes ^b   Hersberger, Kurt E ^c   Bloch, Konrad E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Insomnia; Narcolepsy; Restless legs; Sleep apnoea; Sleep disorders; Sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHARMACIST; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; STANFORD SLEEP DISORDERS QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33645312377     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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