The permanent vegetative state: practical guidance on diagnosis and management

BMJ. 1999 Sep 25;319(7213):841-4. doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7213.841.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Awareness
  • Hearing / physiology
  • Humans
  • Judicial Role
  • Life Support Care / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Life Support Care / standards*
  • Patient Advocacy
  • Persistent Vegetative State* / diagnosis
  • Persistent Vegetative State* / therapy
  • Physical Examination
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic*
  • Psychomotor Performance
  • Treatment Refusal
  • United Kingdom
  • Vision, Ocular / physiology
  • Withholding Treatment