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Successful Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on a Stroke/Neurovascular Unit
The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is accepted as the definitive ... and use of pocket cards. When the survey was redistributed 9 months later to verify results of the quality ...
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Abstract WP116: Lesion Volume and Location Correlate with Picture Description using the New NIH Stroke Scale Stimuli
Methods: Participants included 62 patients with acute ischemic stroke (24 left and 38 right) compared with 10 control participants with transient ischemic attack. Descriptions of the Precarious ...
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Serial assessment of acute stroke using the NIH Stroke Scale.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Stroke Scale has been used in clinical trials to assess neurological outcome after investigational therapy for acute stroke. We used the NIH Stroke Scale to ...
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Successful Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on a Stroke/Neurovascular Unit
We wanted 80% of stroke patients to have a completed ... and a 5-point Likert scale (1 = weak belief, 5 = strong belief) to measure staff nurse beliefs. Participants were encouraged to be open ...
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Revisiting the NIH Stroke Scale as a screening tool for proximal vessel occlusion: can advanced imaging be targeted in acute stroke?
NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) criteria were extended to include resolved symptoms and dichotomized as present or absent. Combinations of NIHSS criteria were considered as tests for proximal occlusion.