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The Rational Clinical Examination Is This Patient Dead, Vegetative, or Severely Neurologically Impaired? Assessing Outcome for Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest

Christopher M. Booth,
Robert H. Boone,
George Tomlinson,
Allan S. Detsky

JAMA. 2004;291(7):870-879.doi:10.1001/jama.291.7.870

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JAMA. 2004;291(7):870-879. doi: 10.1001/jama.291.7.870

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