Neurological diagnosis is more than a state of mind: Diagnostic clarity and impaired consciousness

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1354-1355

  Fins, Joseph J ^a   Plum, Fred ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; HYDRATION; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVING WILL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT CARE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RIGHT TO CARE; WAKEFULNESS;

BRAIN INJURIES; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; EUTHANASIA; HUMANS;

EID: 4444331621     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.9.1354     Document Type: Editorial

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