... was to study outcome after END and transitory deterioration (TD). Methods: In acute ischemic stroke patients, key Scandinavian Stroke Scale (SSS) items were scored 12 times from admission to 72 h. END was defined as ≥2 point decrease in any key SSS item from admission to 72 h. Early deterioration episode...

...Nada El Husseini; Kenneth J. Shea; Larry B. Goldstein Background: The National Stroke Project (NSP) was a retrospective cohort study of US Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA). The NSP included a simple assessment of stroke severity (NSP-Stroke Scale...

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... that scores on baseline NIH stroke scale (NIHSS) items may help emergently stratify patients by their probability of having a particular stroke subtype. Methods: We performed multivariate polytomous logistic regression analyses on 1,281 patients enrolled in the Trial of ORG 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment...

...Khalid Ali; Elizabeth Cheek; Sheila Sills; Peter Crome; Christine Roffe Background: The National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and the Scandinavian Stroke Scale (SSS) are commonly used in clinical stroke trials. Use of different scales in trials makes comparison of outcomes difficult...

... the individual''s particular social context. Thus, three different levels are involved with, in most cases, impairment leading to disability and disability leading to handicap. These distinctions are relevant to stroke outcome research, in which so-called stroke scales are used to quantify neurological...

...L. Hantson; J. De Keyser The clinimetric criteria which any stroke scale must possess include specificity and prognostic value, reliability, validity and sensitivity. The definition of each of these criteria is discussed. A final requirement is that the scale should be easy to use. A number...

.... Nimodipine Meta-analysis Acute ischemic stroke Stroke scales Brain infarction Cerebrovasc Dis 1994;4:197-203 J.P. M ohra J.M. Orgogozob M.J.G. Harrisonc Jl/. Hennericià N. G. Wahlgrenc J.H. Gelmersf E. Martinez- Vila% J. Dyckah D. Tettenbornh >Neurological Institute, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical...