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Article: Revised guidelines offer new ways to manage insomnia
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- Drug Topics
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- April 16, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Medical Economics Inc. Apr 16, 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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How often do your patients seek advice for insomnia? With more than 84 million Americans affected by insomnia, you probably get such questions quite frequently. Despite its prevalence, insomnia receives little attention from the health-care community even though the effects on the quality of life can be severe. In response to this lack of awareness, an international panel of sleep experts has issued new insomnia management guidelines, published in the March issue of the International Journal of Clinical Practice.
During the past several years, three main developments have come into focus, highlighting the need for the new guidelines: the nature of insomnia symptom disorder, the ...