How often is the diagnosis of the permanent vegetative state incorrect? A review of the evidence

A matter of life and death

(2017) Justice Baker   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS

Using best interests meetings for people in a prolonged disorder of consciousness to improve clinical and ethical management

(2017) Derick T Wade   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS

Correlations between diffusion tensor imaging and levels of consciousness in patients with traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2017) Jie Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Sensitivity and Specificity of the Coma Recovery Scale–Revised Total Score in Detection of Conscious Awareness

(2016) Yelena G. Bodien et al.   ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

Recovery of consciousness after 7 years in vegetative state of non-traumatic origin: A single case study

(2016) Antonio De Tanti et al.   BRAIN INJURY

Back to the bedside? Making clinical decisions in patients with prolonged unconsciousness

(2016) Derick Wade   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS

Thalamic and extrathalamic mechanisms of consciousness after severe brain injury

(2015) Evan S. Lutkenhoff et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Coma recovery scale-r: variability in the disorder of consciousness

(2015) MD. Cortese et al.   BMC Neurology

Preserved consciousness in vegetative and minimal conscious states: systematic review and meta-analysis

(2015) Daniel Kondziella et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

The Vegetative State: Prevalence, Misdiagnosis, and Treatment Limitations

(2015) Willemijn S. van Erp et al.   Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

What is a reflex?

(2015) David B. Fischer et al.   NEUROLOGY

Resting brain activity in disorders of consciousness: A systematic review and meta-analysis

(2015) Y. Hannawi et al.   NEUROLOGY

Serial measurement of Wessex Head Injury Matrix in the diagnosis of patients in vegetative and minimally conscious states: a cohort analysis

(2015) L. Turner-Stokes et al.   BMJ Open

Questioning the dichotomy between vegetative state and minimally conscious state: a review of the statistical evidence

(2014) Giulia Liberati et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Capturing covert consciousness

(2013) George A Mashour et al.   LANCET

Can We Scientifically and Reliably Measure the Level of Consciousness in Vegetative and Minimally Conscious States? Rasch Analysis of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised

(2012) Fabio La Porta et al.   ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

From unresponsive wakefulness to minimally conscious PLUS and functional locked-in syndromes: recent advances in our understanding of disorders of consciousness

(2011) Marie-Aurélie Bruno et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

Visual Pursuit: Within-Day Variability in the Severe Disorder of Consciousness

(2011) Antonio Candelieri et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA

Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study

(2011) Damian Cruse et al.   LANCET

Assessment Scales for Disorders of Consciousness: Evidence-Based Recommendations for Clinical Practice and Research

(2010) Ronald T. Seel et al.   ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

Aetiological differences in neuroanatomy of the vegetative state: insights from diffusion tensor imaging and functional implications

(2010) V. F. J. Newcombe et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Late recovery after traumatic, anoxic, or hemorrhagic long-lasting vegetative state

(2010) A. Estraneo et al.   NEUROLOGY

Willful Modulation of Brain Activity in Disorders of Consciousness

(2010) Martin M. Monti et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Covert cognition in the persistent vegetative state

(2010) P. Nachev et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Diagnostic accuracy of the vegetative and minimally conscious state: Clinical consensus versus standardized neurobehavioral assessment

(2009) Caroline Schnakers et al.   BMC Neurology