Disciplines and Occupations

Sleep Medicine Specialty

A medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS and their causes.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

A medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of SLEEP WAKE DISORDERS and their causes.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Medicine Specialties, Sleep
  • Medicine Specialty, Sleep
  • Sleep Medicine Specialties
  • Specialties, Sleep Medicine
  • Specialty, Sleep Medicine

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

use for the discipline (education, history, etc) only; do not use for sleep medications

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History Note

2010

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. H02w.403w.429w.865w

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NLM Classification

WB 115

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Sleep Medicine Specialty. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D056508. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D056508
  2. Sleep Medicine Specialty. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_medicine
  3. Sleep Medicine Specialty. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q744029