Features of "near-death experience" in relation to whether or not patients were near death
The Lancet November 1, 1990 J. Owens, E.W. Cook, I. Stevenson 182 citations
The medical records of 58 patients, most of whom believed they were near death during an illness or after an injury and all of whom later remembered unusual experiences occurring at the time, were examined. 28 patients were judged to have been so close to death that they would have died without medical intervention; the other 30 patients were not in danger of dying although most of them thought...