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PDFDisorders of consciousness
Back to the bedside? Making clinical decisions in patients with prolonged unconsciousness
- Correspondence to Dr Derick Wade, Oxford Centre for Enablement, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 7HE, UK; derick.wade{at}ntlworld.com
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Back to the bedside? Making clinical decisions in patients with prolonged unconsciousness
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- Received March 14, 2016
- Revised July 7, 2016
- Accepted July 17, 2016
- First published August 8, 2016.
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July 28, 2017
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