Vegetative state in two Italian residential facilities: study of prognosis for subjects and related caregivers.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology April 30, 2025 Elisabetta Pupillo, Andrea Magnoni, Lorenzo Tinti et al.
Vegetative state (VS) is a severe disturbance of consciousness, often caused by cerebral insults, with limited long-term prognosis data. to provide a detailed picture of a cohort of patients treated at 2 long-term care facilities in Lombardy starting from 2014. Multicentric observational study. Subjects who met the diagnostic criteria for VS were admitted. A caregiver was identified for each...