Acknowledging awareness: informing families of individual research results for patients in the vegetative state
<p style="text-align:justify;">Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience have revealed that some patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state may retain some degree of covert awareness. However, it is unclear whether such findings should be disclosed to the families o...
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BMJ Publishing Group
2014
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