The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is accepted as the definitive clinical examination to assess stroke severity. This project examined barriers to implementation and NIHSS use ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is accepted as the definitive clinical examination to assess stroke severity. This project examined barriers to implementation and NIHSS use by ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a well-validated, reliable scoring system for use specifically with stroke patients (Goldstein, Bertels, & Davis, 1989; Lyden et al., 1999).

Objective To develop an NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS)-compatible, all-in-one scale for rapid and comprehensive prehospital stroke assessment including stroke recognition, severity grading and progression ...

Admission NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores were determined. Alteplase treatment decisions were guideline-based at the discretion of a vascular neurologist. 7 EVT treatment decisions were at the ...

Screening scales and data collection The stroke responders, primarily neurology resident physicians, were trained through case-based workshop sessions to use the following eight stroke screening ...

BACKGROUND: The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale is a widely accepted tool for structured graded neurological examination of stroke or suspected stroke in the hyperacute setting. Concerns ...

No single outcome measure can describe or predict all dimensions of recovery and disability after acute stroke. Several scales have proven reliability and validity in stroke trials, including the ...

Abstract Background We sought to determine if the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) has a greater discriminative power than Glasgow coma scale (GCS) to identify patients at risk of ...