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Stroke Quick Score: a visual aid in scoring neurologic deficits for acute stroke with National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.

Meyer MA

Neurology and Stroke Services, Erie Count Medical Center, Buffalo, NY 14215, USA. michaelandrewmeyer@yahoo.com

The 15-item National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale is depicted here as a single diagram with major categories of deficits placed into 3 separate functional groups with 7 points assigned to each, in addition to 4 points for motor deficits in each of 4 extremities. This simple composite visual aid, known as the Stroke Quick Score, may help in training stroke team members in the use of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.

Published 14 February 2008 in Am J Emerg Med, 26(2): 189-90.
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