Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Restless Legs Syndrome

Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Restless Legs Syndrome
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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Product ID: 20691

Abstract: 
Restless Legs Syndrome  is one of a continuing series of practical, evidence based, Provider Fact Sheets which summarize key geriatric topics and provide clinically useful assessments and interventions. Initially developed for remote, rural clinical sites,  they are useful for students and health care professionals from many fields and across a very broad range of health care settings.
Estimated time to complete: 
30 minutes

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Educational objectives: 

Objectives:
1. State the criteria for diagnosing restless legs syndrome (RLS)
2. Identify secondary causes of RLS
3. Recommend non-drug and first-line drug therapy for patients with RLS
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 
Subscribers to POGOe are free to reprint Elder Care on their own stationery or in other publications without obtaining specific permission, so long as
(1) content is not changed, 
(2) no one is charged a fee to use or read the publication, 
(3) authors and their affiliated institutions are noted without change, and 
(4) the reprint includes the following statement: “Reprinted courtesy of the Arizona Reynolds Program of Applied Geriatrics and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center."
Publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product: 
The Elder Care provider sheets are occasionally published in the Arizona Geriatrics Society Journal, which is published twice yearly.
Date posted: 
Mon, 07/26/2010
Date last updated: 
Thu, 12/16/2010
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Sponsor: 
Other Sponsors: Arizona Center on Aging

Contact person/corresponding author: 
Dr. Barry Weiss (bdweiss@email.arizona.edu)
Authors: 
Dr. Darlene Moyer
Dr. Javier Zayas-Bazan
NLM Citation:
Moyer, D and Zayas-Bazan, J. Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Restless Legs Syndrome. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2010 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20691
APA Citation:
Moyer, D and Zayas-Bazan, J. (2010). Elder Care: A Resource for Interprofessional Providers: Restless Legs Syndrome. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20691