Reliability of real-time video smartphone for assessing national institutes of health stroke scale scores in acute stroke patients

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3271-3277

  Demaerschalk, Bart M ^a,e   Vegunta, Sravanthi ^b,c   Vargas, Bert B ^a   Wu, Qing ^d   Channer, Dwight D ^a   Hentz, Joseph G ^d  

^a Department of Neurology   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e Cerebrovascular Diseases Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular phone; Emergency medicine; Stroke; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DYSARTHRIA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GAZE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MOBILE PHONE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; RELIABILITY; SATISFACTION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VIDEOCONFERENCING; VISUAL FIELD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLULAR PHONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); NEUROLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

EID: 84870858454     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.669150     Document Type: Article

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