A secondary goal was to integrate the NIHSS tool into standard nursing practice by the end of 2004. We wanted 80% of stroke patients ... and a 5-point Likert scale (1 = weak belief, 5 = strong ...

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 ...

this innovative approach reminds clinicians to perform the NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS), test of skew, and gait evaluation for any patient presenting with dizziness, vertigo, or imbalance. The new ...

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is accepted as the definitive clinical examination to assess stroke severity. This project examined barriers to implementation and NIHSS use ...