The types of neurological deficits might not justify withholding treatment in patients with low total national institutes of health stroke scale scores

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 782-786

  Leira, Enrique C ^a   Ludwig, Bryan R ^a   Gurol, M Edip ^a   Torner, James C ^b   Adams, Harold P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

acute stroke; mild stroke; NIH Stroke Scale; outcomes; prognosis; scales

Indexed keywords

ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSARTHRIA; FACE; GAZE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEG WEAKNESS; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ORIENTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; APHASIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VISION DISORDERS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84857610671     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.620674     Document Type: Article

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