For Medicare beneficiaries with acute ischemic stroke, the NIH Stroke Scale provided substantial prognostic information regarding 30-day mortality risk, according to recent study results.

As part of the Affordable Care Act, hospitals and medical centers are required to report their quality-of-care and risk-standardized outcomes for stroke and other common medical conditions.

"This GWTG-Stroke study demonstrates that to adequately profile hospital performance in caring for acute ischemic stroke, [it] is critical to adjust for stroke severity using the NIH Stroke Scale ...

Hospitals and medical centers are required to report their quality-of-care and risk-standardized outcomes for stroke and other common medical conditions as part of the Affordable Care Act.

They used the NIH Stroke Scale for ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage and the World ... “Stroke became milder in severity during the past 20 years regardless of sex or stroke types ...

Using the risk score that didn't include the NIH stroke scale, the researchers predicted that the risk of death was 0.7 percent in the lowest category of risk, while the risk of death was 16.2 ...

Honolulu, Hawaii — The more severe a child's stroke, the more intense the subsequent changes in behavior and the higher the level of depressive symptoms, a new study has found. Other factors ...

Stroke Rounds: Aspirin Resistance Tied to Severity — Associated with infarct volume, initial stroke severity in Korean study. by Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today February 24, 2015 ...