Comparison of stroke recognition and stroke severity scores for stroke detection in a single cohort

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1021-1028

  Purrucker, Jan C ^a   Hametner, Christian ^a   Engelbrecht, Andreas ^a   Bruckner, Thomas ^b   Popp, Erik ^b   Poli, Sven ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CINCINNATI PREHOSPITAL STROKE SCALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; FACE ARM SPEECH TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; KURASHIKI PREHOSPITAL STROKE SCALE; LOS ANGELES MOTOR SCALE; LOS ANGELES PREHOSPITAL STROKE SCREEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIC PREHOSPITAL ASSESSMENT FOR CODE STROKE; MELBOURNE AMBULANCE STROKE SCREEN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION OF STROKE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM SCORE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORTENED NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; VALIDATION STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84940706844     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2014-309260     Document Type: Article

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