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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Treatment response to sleep, pain, and mood disturbance and their correlation with sleep disturbance in adult patients with moderate-to-severe primary restless legs syndrome: Pooled analyses from 3 trials of gabapentin enacarbil

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Pages 268-276 | Received 19 Dec 2014, Accepted 26 Feb 2015, Published online: 15 Apr 2015

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