Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state: a cohort study : The Lancet: Despite rigorous clinical assessment, many patients in the vegetative state are misdiagnosed. The EEG method developed by resesarchers is cheap, portable, widely available, and objective. It could allow the widespread use of this bedside technique for the rediagnosis of patients who behaviourally seem to be entirely vegetative, but who might have residual cognitive function and conscious awareness.
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