Editor's perspective: RLS/WED diagnostic criteria: An unfortunate conundrum in search of rectification

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 845-

  Chokroverty, Sudhansu ^a  

^a New Jersey Neuroscience Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE DURATION; DSM-5; EDITORIAL; GENETICS; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WILLIS EKBOM DISEASE; NOMENCLATURE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DISEASE MARKER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOM;

HUMANS; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84904870083     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2014.07.004     Document Type: Editorial

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