Variation and Trends in the Documentation of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in GWTG-Stroke Hospitals

Variation and Trends in the Documentation of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in GWTG-Stroke Hospitals.

BACKGROUND Although National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is an important prognostic variable, it is often incompletely documented in clinical registries, such as Get With The Guidelines (GWTG)-Stroke. We describe trends in NIHSS documentation by GWTG-Stroke hospitals, identify patient-level and hospital-level factors associated with documentation, and determine the degree to which...

National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS).

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...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale: Its Role in Patients with Posterior Circulation Stroke.

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is indispensable for both prognosis and treatment in patients with acute ischemic stroke. However, there is subtype of acute ischemic stroke (i.e., posterior circulation stroke) that is difficult to diagnose using the NIHSS. The authors report the limits of NIHSS in this stroke subtype, suggesting thereby the need to modify and render it mo...