@article{ref1,
title="Traumatic brain injury recovery trajectories in patients with disorders of consciousness",
journal="JAMA neurology",
year="2021",
author="Smith, Michael C. and Patel, Mayur B. and Guillamondegui, Oscar D.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="We congratulate Kowalski et al1 for their longitudinal nested cohort of patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) using the long-standing, federally supported Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) National Database,2 which has 3 decades of follow-up. Their findings are remarkable in that the majority (82%) of initially comatose patients recovered consciousness after a stay in an inpatient rehabilitation center. More impressive is that 2 of 5 patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) regained either partial or full independence. However, there are several interesting limitations that we thought were worth highlighting to the JAMA Neurology readership...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2168-6149",
doi="10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.3433",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.3433"
}