Misdiagnosis as an ethical and scientific challenge
Difficulties of behavioral assessment of consciousness. An astonishingly high rate of misdiagnosis between vegetative state/unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state has been detected. This raises the issue of the adequacy of the consciousness' assessment in patients with...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Istituto Superiore di Sanità
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0021-25712014000300005&lng=en&tlng=en |