Figure 1.
Flow chart of the study protocol.
According to the CORE score (Consciousness, eyes Open, spontaneous REspiration), the articles were judged as complete if they described all three major characteristics of VS: unawareness, wakefulness and spontaneous respiration. VS indicates vegetative state.
Table 1.
Topics in 967 print media articles of the Englaro case.
Table 2.
Medical media articles.
Table 3.
Quality of reporting of articles specifically describing the vegetative state.
Table 4.
Reporting of the CORE score components in the 61 articles specifically describing the vegetative state.