Quantifying microsleep to help assess subjective sleepiness.

Background: The qualitative presence of microsleep during the multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) has been shown to correlate with an increased incidence of subjective complaints of sleepiness, tiredness, accidents/near accidents, and gap driving. However, there is no data on how to quantify microsleep and effectively incorporate it as a diagnostic tool in the measurement of sleepiness. The purpose of this study was to integrate microsleep with the MSLT score and determine if it improved the correlation between the MSLT and symptomatic sleepiness.