Suzanne Bertisch
CME Objective: To review current evidence for diagnosis, treatment, and practice improvement for restless legs syndrome.
Funding Source: American College of Physicians.
Disclosures: Dr. Bertisch, ACP Contributing Author, reports grants from UCB Pharmaceuticals and Merck outside the submitted work. Disclosures can also be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M15-1891.
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Acknowledgment: The author thanks Julia S. Whelan, MS, AHIP, Harvard Medical School, who provided valuable assistance with conduct of the complex systematic review; and John W. Winkelman, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Catherine Buettner, MD, MPH, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, who provided invaluable comments and suggestions on a draft of the manuscript.
This issue provides a clinical overview of restless legs syndrome, focusing on diagnosis, treatment, and practice improvement. The content of In the Clinic is drawn from the clinical information and education resources of the American College of Physicians (ACP), including MKSAP (Medical Knowledge and Self-Assessment Program). Annals of Internal Medicine editors develop In the Clinic in collaboration with the ACP's Medical Education and Publishing divisions and with the assistance of additional science writers and physician writers.
Bertisch S. Restless Legs Syndrome. Ann Intern Med. 2015;163:ITC1. doi: 10.7326/AITC201511030
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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2015;163(9):ITC1.
DOI: 10.7326/AITC201511030
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