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 ...

Researchers have found in a new study that elevated D-dimer levels and higher NIHSS scores were found to strongly predict ...

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., ...