A minimally conscious state, unlike a vegetative state, is characterized by some evidence of awareness of self and/or the environment, and patients tend to improve. Diagnosis is clinical. Treatment is mainly supportive. Prognosis for patients with persistent deficits is typically bleak.
agenda (plural agendas) 1  A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. 2  A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
Agenda-setting, the first stage in a policy cycle, refers to the processes by which social conditions. are recognized and considered to have evolved into a âpublic problemâ â no longer subject to a. social or natural destiny, nor belonging to the private sphere thereby becoming the focus of â.