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).

During the first quarter of 2003, the NIHSS was presented to unit staff nurses by the nurse manager as a tool for comprehensive and concise neurological assessment of stroke patients and for clear ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score (range, 0 to 42, with higher scores indicating more severe neurologic deficits) at 5 to 7 days (or at discharge if it occurred earlier ...

The mean score for the care dependency, fatigue scale, positive coping, and negative coping of our study were consistent with other findings of the Chinese population (51). The NIHSS score is a widely ...

Secondary outcomes included performance on a gait speed test, Barthel Index (BI), NIH Stroke Scale score (NIHSS), Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI, resting state fMRI and ...

The primary efficacy outcome was the proportion of patients with the NIH Stroke Scale score of no more than 1 or a decrease of 4 points or more from baseline at 14 days.

ECHO investigators reported differences in pandemic-related traumatic stress among participants using a newly developed self-report survey.