NIH stroke scale reliability in ratings from a large sample of clinicians

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 389-395

  Josephson, S Andrew ^a   Hills, Nancy K ^a   Johnston, S Claiborne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b M 798 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

NIH stroke scale; Reliability; Stroke; Variance

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; DATA ANALYSIS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; VARIANCE; VIDEOTAPE;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NURSES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33750582401     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094857     Document Type: Article

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