Medical media articles.

<p>Medical media articles.</p

Reporting of the CORE score components in the 61 articles specifically describing the vegetative state.

<p>According to the CORE score (<b>C</b>onsciousness, eyes <b>O</b>pen, spontaneous <b>RE</b>spiration), the articles were judged as complete if they described all three major characteristics of VS: unawareness, wakefulness and spontaneous respiration.</p

Flow chart of the study protocol.

<p>According to the CORE score (<b>C</b>onsciousness, eyes <b>O</b>pen, spontaneous <b>RE</b>spiration), the articles were judged as complete if they described all three major characteristics of VS: unawareness, wakefulness and spontaneous respiration. VS indicates vegetative state.</p

Topics in 967 print media articles of the Englaro case.

<p>The total number of topics (n. 1651) is greater than the total number of articles (n. 967) because one article could be classified in more than one topic. Percentages refer to the total number of topics.</p