The Treatment Gap

Since the 1950's when the field of sleep medicine was in its infancy, there has been a vast increase in the amount of research on sleep and its disorders as well as an incredible boom in the number of effective treatments for sleep disorders.  Yet, despite the dramatic increase in sleep knowledge, the benefits from this knowledge still have not helped many Americans who suffer needlessly from sleep disorders.  This disparage between the patients who benefit from current sleep knowledge and those who have yet to benefit is called the treatment gap.