Power of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale in Assessing Stroke Systems of Care
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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 to date with data from more than 400 hospitals involved in AHA “Get With The Guidelines—Stroke”
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