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Sleep Issues in Medical Rehabilitation

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Sleep disturbances, including insomnia in particular, are common concerns among hospitalized patients and can have a significant impact on duration of hospital admissions, recovery time, and rehabilitation efforts. As such, the following chapter provides practical tips for preventing, assessing, and treating sleep disturbances among inpatients in order to reduce healthcare costs and maximize patient outcomes. Specifically, healthcare providers can reduce sleep disturbances by minimizing noise and light in the inpatient environment, standardizing the timing of vital sign assessments to reduce sleep fragmentation, and educating patients about healthy sleep habits. Moreover, assessing common causes and consequences of sleep disturbance, such as pain and depression, can help to identify patients at risk for developing disturbed sleep and provide additional targets for intervention. Increased awareness and education about the causes, consequences, and approaches to treating sleep issues among inpatient medical and rehabilitation patients is key to improving patient outcomes.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Suite 100, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Luis F. Buenaver Ph.D., C.B.S.M. & Jessica Richards Ph.D.

  2. Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 5200 Mason F Lord, West Tower 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Evelyn Gathecha M.D.

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  2. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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  3. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Buenaver, L.F., Richards, J., Gathecha, E. (2017). Sleep Issues in Medical Rehabilitation. In: Budd, M., Hough, S., Wegener, S., Stiers, W. (eds) Practical Psychology in Medical Rehabilitation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34034-0_32

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