Do some people with a prolonged disorder of consciousness experience pain? A clinically focused narrative review and synthesis.
Derick T Wade, Andrew Hanrahan
PMID 40223293WHAT IT FOUND
No patient outcomes are reported.
This is a narrative review and clinical synthesis.
What this paper is
This is a clinically focused narrative review and synthesis, not an empirical study. It describes a Google Scholar and PubMed search, but says it is not a systematic review. It discusses consciousness and nociception and offers clinical messages, but it reports no patients, no outcomes and no tested intervention, so there is no finding to act on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the clinical messages as evidence from patients. The paper reports no patients, outcomes or tested interventions.