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Assessment of sleepiness in clinical practice

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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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  1. Department of Neurology and Sleep Disorders Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA

    Ronald D. Chervin & Christian Guilleminault

  2. Department of Behavioral Sciences and Psychiatry and Sleep Disorders Clinic, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 94305, USA

    Ronald D. Chervin & Christian Guilleminault

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