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ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2022

Empowering the voiceless. Disorders of consciousness, neuroimaging and supported decision-making.

Timo Istace

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Timo IstaceDepartment of Law, Research Group Personal Rights and Property Rights, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
University of Antwerp · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients suffering from (Prolonged) Disorder of Consciousness are deemed incompetent to give valid informed consent due to the presumed impairment of their cognitive functions and the impossibility to communicate with them. Neuroscientists have, however, discovered ways in which communication with some of these patients might be possible by using neuroimaging. This would for the first time make it possible to include them in the decision-making on their own medical treatment. In this article, I elaborate on the prospect of communicating with patients with impaired consciousness in order to obtain their informed consent. I first map the current state-of-the-art in neuroimaging research that exhibits the possibility of communicating with some of these patients. Secondly, I examine how obtaining informed consent from these patients might be possible, given that the specificities and limitations of communication

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competencedisorders of consciousnessinformed consentneuroimagingsupported decision-making

Identifiers

PMID36147989
PMCPMC9488582
OpenAlexW4294808356

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Registered trials

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