It is difficult to show that patients' results on the most common quantitative test for sleepiness correlate with several factors associated with sleepiness.
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Chervin, R., Guilleminault, C. Assessment of sleepiness in clinical practice. Nat Med 1, 1252–1253 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1295-1252
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