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. 2020 May;59(4-5):340-351.
doi: 10.1177/0009922820903434. Epub 2020 Mar 13.

Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Excessive Daytime Sleepiness

Judith A Owens  1 , Debra Babcock  2 , Miriam Weiss  3
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Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Excessive Daytime Sleepiness

Judith A Owens et al. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2020 May.
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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Judith A. Owens has received consultancy fees from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, TouchPoint, and Sleep Number, and receives royalties from WebMD, Wolters Kluwer, and Taylor and Francis. Debra Babcock has received consultancy fees from Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Johnson and Johnson. Miriam Weiss has no conflicts of interest to report.

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Evaluation and diagnosis of excessive daytime sleepiness in school-aged children and adolescents. Bold, italic text = diagnostic tests; bold, not italic text = diagnoses; shaded boxes = testing/diagnostic endpoints. Abbreviations: MSLT, Multiple Sleep Latency Test; PLMD, periodic limb movement disorder; PSG, polysomnography; RLS, restless legs syndrome.
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