A secondary goal was to integrate the NIHSS tool into standard nursing practice ... and a 5-point Likert scale (1 = weak belief, 5 = strong belief) to measure staff nurse beliefs.

Secondary outcomes included performance on a gait speed test, Barthel Index (BI), NIH Stroke Scale score (NIHSS), Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI, resting state fMRI and ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a well-validated, reliable scoring system for use specifically with stroke patients (Goldstein, Bertels, & Davis, 1989; Lyden et al., ...