Perspectives on consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness from brain injury: group concept mapping study across clinic, research, and families.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An effective healthcare system depends on clinic, research, and patient/relatives interactions. Such interactions may at their core be challenged by misalignments of concepts and the practices that constitute them. The concept of consciousness and what is experienced and understood as signs of consciousness in patients with severe acquired brain injury is one of these potential areas of misalignment. Different perspectives and experiences of consciousness are challenging the delivery of care and the high-stake decision-making process on the potential withdrawal of treatment. The enhanced uncertainties call for reflections on how key stakeholders perceive and identify consciousness in current clinical encounters and practice.

Methods

The study empirically explores

SUBMITTER: Blond N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10173477 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature