Sleep & Breathing

Enhancing primary care detection and referral of nightmare disorder: a quality improvement initiative : Journal name: Sleep and Breathing.

Sleep & Breathing June 26, 2026 James R. Kang, Zahari N. Tchopev, H Samuel Scheuller et al.

Background: Nightmare disorder (NDO) is a clinically under-recognized sleep disorder within the military population. We have previously reported that 31.2% of patients referred to our sleep disorders center incidentally had probable NDO, yet only 3.9% were specifically referred for NDO. Under-recognition and therefore under-treatment of NDO negatively impacts patients' health and military...