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Is the NIHSS Certification Process Too Lenient?

Author(s) -

Nancy K. Hills,

S. Andrew Josephson,

Patrick D. Lyden,

S. Claiborne Johnston

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

cerebrovascular diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221

H-Index - 104

eISSN - 1421-9786

pISSN - 1015-9770

DOI - 10.1159/000209237

Subject(s) - medicine , certification , process (computing) , intensive care medicine , political science , law , computer science , operating system

The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) is a widely used measure of neurological function in clinical trials and patient assessment; inter-rater scoring variability could impact communications and trial power. The manner in which the rater certification test is scored yields multiple correct answers that have changed over time. We examined the range of possible total NIHSS scores from answers given in certification tests by over 7,000 individual raters who were certified.

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