An open request to epidemiologists: please stop querying self-reported sleep duration

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue , 2017, Pages 92-93

  Bianchi, Matt T ^a,b   Thomas, Robert J ^b,c   Westover, M Brandon ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIST; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; PERIODIC LIMB MOVEMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; DEVICES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; STANDARDS;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF REPORT; SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS;

EID: 85015702796     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.02.001     Document Type: Editorial

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