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

Damian Cruse; Srivas Chennu; Camille Chatelle; Tristan A Bekinschtein; Davinia Fernández-Espejo; John D Pickard; Steven Laureys; Adrian M Owen

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

January 30, 2005

Cruse D, Chennu S, Chatelle C, et al. Lancet. 2011;378(9809):2088-94.

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This study found that many patients were misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state and that using a specific electroencephalogram method may assist with proper diagnosis.

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