Sleep Medicine
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 175-183 , March 2006

The official World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) standards for recording and scoring periodic leg movements in sleep (PLMS) and wakefulness (PLMW) developed in collaboration with a task force from the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group (IRLSSG)

Received 28 December 2005 ,Revised 3 January 2006 ,Accepted 3 January 2006.

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PII: S1389-9457(06)00004-9

doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2006.01.001

Sleep Medicine
Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 175-183 , March 2006

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