Permanent Vegetative State: Usefulness and limits of a prognostic definition

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 381-389

  Borthwick, C J ^a,b   Crossley, R ^a  

^a DEAL Communication Centre   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disability; Locked in syndrome; Permanent vegetative state; Persistent vegetative state; Post coma awareness; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISABILITY; DYSPRAXIA; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NOMENCLATURE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 13444291412     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/nre-2004-19416     Document Type: Review

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