Concurrent validity and reliability of retrospective scoring of the Pediatric National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

The Pediatric National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (PedNIHSS), an adaptation of the adult National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, is a quantitative measure of stroke severity shown to be reliable when scored prospectively. The ability to calculate the PedNIHSS score retrospectively would be invaluable in the conduct of observational pediatric stroke studies. The study objective was to assess the concurrent validity and reliability of estimating the PedNIHSS score retrospectively from medical records.

Methods

Neurological examinations from medical records of 75 children enrolled in a prospective PedNIHSS validation study were photocopied. Four neurologists of varying training levels blinded to the prospective PedNIHSS scores reviewed the recor

SUBMITTER: Beslow LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3265644 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature