Melatonin treatment efficacy: For whom and for what?

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 193-195

  Van Someren, Eus J W ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; PLACEBO;

ACTIMETRY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENNOX GASTAUT SYNDROME; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUMANS; MELATONIN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947626656     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2006.12.008     Document Type: Editorial

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