Profiles of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale items as a predictor of patient outcome.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Initial National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score is highly predictive of outcome after ischemic stroke. We examined whether grouping strokes by presence of individual NIHSS symptoms could provide prognostic information additional or alternative to the NIHSS total score.

Methods

Ischemic strokes from the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Stroke Study in 2005 were used to develop the model. Latent class analysis was implemented to form groups of patients with similar retrospective NIHSS (rNIHSS) item responses. Profile group was then used as an independent predictor of discharge modified Rankin and mortality, using logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards model.

Results

A total of 2112 stroke patients were identified in

SUBMITTER: Sucharew H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4190834 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature