Can 90-Day NIHSS Be Used for Outcome Assessment in TIA and Minor Stroke Studies?

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 97-98

  Dubuc, Veronique ^a   Choi, Philip ^a   Hill, Michael D ^a,b,c   Coutts, Shelagh B ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CIRCULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NOTE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; CONVALESCENCE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME FACTOR;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84937802337     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000431187     Document Type: Note

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