title: Chinese translation of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised.
abstract: Misdiagnosis rate is high in patients with disorders of consciousness, potentially leading to an inappropriate clinical management of these patients. Sensitive standardised rating scales offer some protections from these diagnostic errors. In this context, the use of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) has strongly been recommended by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.
  
  
  
  Here, we present the work that has been performed to translate this important diagnostic tool in Chinese.
  
  
  
  The scale has been translated from its original English version to Chinese by a team of native Chinese speakers in agreement with an expert highly trained in the use of the original version of the CRS-R and, then, back-translated to English by four independent translators blinded to the original version. The resulting translation has been sent to the original author for final approval.
  
  
  
  The Chinese version of the CRS-R is now available for use in clinical practise. Further investigations will nevertheless be needed in order to show that its psychometric properties are identical to the original English version.
authors.affiliation: a International Vegetative State and Consciousness Science Institute , Hangzhou Normal University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China.
authors.forename: Haibo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Di
authors.affiliation: a International Vegetative State and Consciousness Science Institute , Hangzhou Normal University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China.
authors.forename: Minhui
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: a International Vegetative State and Consciousness Science Institute , Hangzhou Normal University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: a International Vegetative State and Consciousness Science Institute , Hangzhou Normal University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China.
authors.forename: Lijuan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: a International Vegetative State and Consciousness Science Institute , Hangzhou Normal University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China.
authors.forename: Fuyan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: a International Vegetative State and Consciousness Science Institute , Hangzhou Normal University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China.
authors.forename: Yunzhi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.affiliation: a International Vegetative State and Consciousness Science Institute , Hangzhou Normal University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang , China.
authors.forename: Wangshan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: b Coma Science Group, GIGA-Research and Cyclotron Research Centre , University and CHU University Hospital of Liege , Liege , Belgium.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Laureys
authors.affiliation: c Department of Neurosurgery , University of California Los Angeles , Los Angeles , CA , USA.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schnakers
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D011594:Psychometrics; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000502:physiology*; D014175:Translating; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices
keywords: Brain injury; behavioural scale; consciousness; minimally conscious state; translation; vegetative state