Unexpected emergence from the vegetative state: delayed discovery rather than late recovery of consciousness.

Willemijn S van ErpAnoek M L AbenJan C M LavrijsenPieter E VosSteven LaureysRaymond T C M Koopmans

Published in: Journal of neurology (2019)

Delayed recognition of signs of consciousness in patients in a vegetative state may not only lead to suboptimal clinical care, but also to distorted prognostic figures. Discriminating late recovery from the delayed discovery of consciousness, therefore, is vital to both clinical practice and science.

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