Reliability of prehospital real-time cellular video phone in assessing the simplified national institutes of health stroke scale in patients with acute stroke: A novel telemedicine technology

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1522-1527

  Gonzalez, Manuel A ^a   Hanna, Nicholas ^a   Rodrigo, Maria E ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Waksman, Ron ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute stroke; cellular video phone; National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR VIDEO PHONE; CERTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MOBILE PHONE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SPECIALIZATION; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TELEMEDICINE;

CELLULAR PHONE; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 79958262707     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.600296     Document Type: Article

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