The financial crisis has an impact in sleep medicine: Experience of a sleep clinic in Greece

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1329-1332

  Pataka, Athanasia ^a,b   Chavouzis, Nikolaos ^a   Fekete Passa, Katalin ^a   Pitsiou, Georgia ^a   Argyropoulou, Paraskevi ^a  

^a G PAPANICOLAOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

CPAP; Economic crisis; Sleep disorders; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC CRISIS; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; FEMALE; GREECE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGHTMARE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP CLINIC; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP MEDICINE; SYMPTOM; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; DREAM; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH SURVEY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; DREAMS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HEADACHE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SLEEP MEDICINE SPECIALTY; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84888644339     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: 15221709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-013-0838-z     Document Type: Article

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