Pharmacological interventions for sleepiness and sleep disturbances caused by shift work

BACKGROUND: Shift work results in sleep-wake disturbances, which cause sleepiness during night shifts and reduce sleep length and quality in daytime sleep after the night shift. In its serious form it is also called shift work sleep...

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Main Authors: Juha Liira, Jos H. Verbeek, Giovanni Costa, Tim R. Driscoll, Mikael Sallinen, Leena K. Isotalo, Jani H. Ruotsalainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802015000100067&lng=en&tlng=en