Power of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in Assessing Stroke Systems of Care

Power of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in Assessing Stroke Systems of Care

T he timely article by Fonarow and colleagues in this issue of JAHA reports the findings from the largest study to date on the relation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score with 30-day mortality rate in patients hospitalized for acute ischemic stroke.1 Prior smaller, largely single center, studies have reported similar results but this work used the largest data set t...

National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS).

Reliability of real-time video smartphone for assessing National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale scores in acute stroke patients.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Telestroke reduces acute stroke care disparities between urban stroke centers and rural hospitals. Current technologies used to conduct remote patient assessments have high start-up costs, yet they cannot consistently establish quality timely connections. Smartphones can be used for high-quality video teleconferencing. They are inexpensive and ubiquitous among health care...

Distribution of National Institutes of Health stroke scale in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Stroke Study.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little is known about the distribution of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores from patients with ischemic stroke sampled from population-based studies. We describe the distribution of NIHSS in ischemic stroke cases from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Stroke Study. METHODS Within a biracial population of 1.3 million, all strokes among area residen...

The effect of statins on National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NiHSS) in Ischemic stroke

Introduction. Stroke is a type of nervous focal disorder that occurs suddenly because of acute vascular events. 113-149 out of 100000 persons (0.113-0.149%) face with stroke in Iran annually. This causes treatment costs and many disabilities. Recently, studies indicated that statins, as a class of drugs, could decrease the chance of stroke recurrence and probably disabilities after stroke onset...