Lies, damned lies and diagnoses: Estimating the clinical utility of assessments of covert awareness in the vegetative state

Brain Injury

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1197-1201

  Cruse, Damian ^a   Gantner, Ithabi ^b   Soddu, Andrea ^a   Owen, Adrian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Awareness; Minimally conscious state; Sensitivity; Specificity; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84905591199     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2014.920517     Document Type: Article

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