TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Traumatic brain injury recovery trajectories in patients with disorders of consciousness
JO  - JAMA neurology
A1  - Smith, Michael C.
A1  - Patel, Mayur B.
A1  - Guillamondegui, Oscar D.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2168-6149
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.3433
ID  - ref1
ER  -