Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 6 , Pages 543-545 , December 2000

Non nocere if you really care: a commentary on “Hypnotic medication in the treatment of chronic insomnia” (Dr M. Kramer)

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☆ Correspondence to be addressed to: Daniel F. Kripke, M.DDepartment of Psychiatry 0667 and The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0667, USA. Fax: 858-534-7405; E-mail: DKripke@UCSD.edu

PII: S1087-0792(00)90129-1

doi: 10.1053/smrv.2000.0129

Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 4, Issue 6 , Pages 543-545 , December 2000

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