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Successful Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on a Stroke/Neurovascular Unit
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., ...
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USACS partners with Penn Medicine for stroke diagnosis
US Acute Care Solutions (USACS) has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine) to implement the ‘dizziNIHSS’ initiative across the latter’s Philadelphia ...
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Successful Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale on a Stroke/Neurovascular Unit
A project was developed to determine the barriers to NIHSS use by the nursing staff, to develop and implement a plan to improve the completion rate, and to evaluate progress as interventions were ...