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Article: Pitt Researchers Stress Importance of Proper Diagnosis Of Chronic Insomnia in New England Journal of Medicine
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- January 28, 1997
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Researchers Say Family Practitioners Need More Education on Treatment Methods
made in the treatment of chronic insomnia in recent years, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) question whether most physicians have enough information to properly diagnose and treat it. In an article in today's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), David J. Kupfer, M.D., and Charles F. Reynolds III, M.D., stress the importance primary care physicians hold as the primary resource for treating chronic insomnia, yet worry that many cases are misdiagnosed or undertreated because doctors do not have the latest ...