Concerns for the reliability and validity of the national stroke project stroke severity scale

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 426-430

  El Husseini, Nada ^a   Shea, Kenneth J ^a   Goldstein, Larry B ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Stroke; Stroke outcome; Stroke scales

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL STROKE PROJECT STROKE SEVERITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; VALIDITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053541487     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331476     Document Type: Article

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