title: Evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders in the medical setting.
abstract: Sleep disturbances may complicate the clinical presentation of medically ill patients. The assessment and management of sleep disorders in this population requires direct attention to the nature of the relationships between medical illness and sleep disorder. In this paper we present a systematic description of these relationships, which include sleep disturbances secondary to symptoms of a medical illness, sleep disturbances secondary to medical treatment, sleep disorders sharing a similar pathophysiology with medical symptoms, and sleep disturbances and medical symptoms secondary to a psychiatric disorder.
authors.affiliation: Unit on Peptide Studies, Biological Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D012803:Sick Role; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy