Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION RESEARCH
Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 350-356Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MRR.0000000000000135
Keywords
Coma Recovery Scale; consciousness disorders; minimally conscious state; neurobehavioral manifestations; patient outcome assessment; persistent vegetative state
Categories
Funding
- Coma Research Centre (CRC) project - Lombardy regional government [IX/000407-05/08/2010]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The differential diagnosis between vegetative state and minimally conscious state is still complex and the development of an evaluation systems is one of the challenging tasks for researchers and professionals. The Coma Recovery Scale-revised is considered the gold standard for clinical/behavioral assessment and for the differential diagnosis of patients with disorder of consciousness. However, the scale presents some limitations in that (i) scores may partially overlap between different diagnoses and (ii) there is an underlying assumption that if a patient is able to show higher-level behaviors, he/she is also able to show lower-level responses. In the present study, a procedure to calculate a modified Coma Recovery Scale-revised score is presented that attempts to avoid these problems. To exemplify this new scoring approach, 60 patients with disorder of consciousness were studied and the results showed the usefulness of the Modified Score. Copyright (C) 2015 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available