Interpreting score differences in the Insomnia Severity Index: using health-related outcomes to define the minimally important difference

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  2009

• Venue

  Current Medical Research and Opinion

• Publication date

  2009-09-14

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1185/03007990903167415PMID 19689221
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