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Review
. 1988 Feb;11(1):100-9.
doi: 10.1093/sleep/11.1.100.

Catastrophes, sleep, and public policy: consensus report

M M Mitler  1 , M A Carskadon, C A Czeisler, W C Dement, D F Dinges, R C Graeber
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Catastrophes, sleep, and public policy: consensus report

M M Mitler et al. Sleep. 1988 Feb.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
The number of unintentional sleep episodes observed at various times of day in the studies of Carskadon et al. (–6). The pattern from noon to 8 p.m. has been widely replicated in studies using the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (7) and the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (8).
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Number of human deaths per 2-h interval in the 437,511 deaths analyzed by Smolensky et al. (16) and Mitler et al. (17).
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
Number of human deaths attributed to ischemic heart disease per 2-h interval from the data of Mitler et al. (17) and Muller et al. (21).
Fig. 4
Fig. 4
Temporal distribution of 6,052 vehicular accidents that were judged by investigators to be fatigue-related displayed as a function of time of day. The figure combines the samples of Lavie et al. (23) (Israel: n = 390), Langlois et al. (24) (Texas: n = 4,994) and Duff (unpublished observations) (New York: n = 668).
Fig. 5
Fig. 5
Temporal distribution of 75,000 meter-reading errors plotted in the same 2-h format as Figs. 1–4. Data are taken from Bjerner et al. (31).
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