Improving RLS diagnosis and severity assessment: Polysomnography, actigraphy and RLS-sleep log

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Allen, Richard P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actigraphy; Leg activity measures; Periodic leg movements; Placebo response; PLMS; PLMW; Restless legs syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LEG MOVEMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 34447272940     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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