From Awareness to Prognosis: Ethical Implications of Uncovering Hidden Awareness in Behaviorally Nonresponsive Patients

Long-term patient outcomes after severe brain injury are highly variable, and reliable prognostic indicators are urgently needed to guide treatment decisions. Functional neuroimaging is a highly sensitive method of uncovering covert cognition and awareness in patients with prolonged disorders of con...

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Authors: Graham, Mackenzie (Author) ; Wallace, Eugene (Author) ; Doherty, Colin (Author) ; Mccann, Alison (Author) ; Naci, Lorina (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2019
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 616-631
Further subjects:B disorders of consciousness
B Ethics
B surrogate decisionmaking
B prognosis
B Brain injury
B neuroimaging
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