Misdiagnosis of disorders of consciousness still commonplace
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 12:14
in Health & Medicine
A sixteen-month study of consensus-based diagnosis of patients with disorders of consciousness has shown that 41% of cases of minimally conscious state (MCS) were misdiagnosed as vegetative state (VS), a condition associated with a much lower chance of recovery. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neurology have demonstrated that standardised neurobehavioural assessment is more sensitive than diagnoses determined by clinical consensus...