Nurses on the stroke/neurovascular unit at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center (PSVMC) in Portland, OR, care for approximately 500 stroke patients per year. Nursing staff members used the ...

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.

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 ...