The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is accepted as the definitive ... and routinely use a validated and standardized tool for neurologic assessment in combination with ...

The NIHSS has been introduced in the emergency department and the intensive care unit as the hospital standard for stroke assessment. Standardizing the NIHSS as the assessment tool for all stroke ...

Symptoms were minor when participants had a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Stroke Scale ≤5 at assessment and were expected to be discharged or spend no more than one night in hospital. Predefined ...