Is the NIHSS Certification Process Too Lenient?
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Is the NIHSS certification process too lenient?
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a widely used measure of neurological function in clinical trials and patient assessment; inter-rater scoring variability could impact communications and trial power. The manner in which the rater certification test is scored yields multiple correct answers that have changed over time. We examined the range of poss...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cerebrovascular Diseases
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1015-9770,1421-9786
DOI: 10.1159/000209237