Reliability and validity of the Canadian Neurological Scale in retrospective assessment of initial stroke severity

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 286-291

  Stavem, Knut ^a   Lossius, Morten ^a   Rønning, Ole Morten ^a  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Outcome; Prognosis; Retrospective studies; Risk stratification; Stroke assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANADIAN NEUROLOGICAL SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0043245206     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071129     Document Type: Article

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