The minimally conscious state: Definition and diagnostic criteria
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The minimally conscious state: definition and diagnostic criteria.
OBJECTIVE To establish consensus recommendations among health care specialties for defining and establishing diagnostic criteria for the minimally conscious state (MCS). BACKGROUND There is a subgroup of patients with severe alteration in consciousness who do not meet diagnostic criteria for coma or the vegetative state (VS). These patients demonstrate inconsistent but discernible evidence of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.58.3.349