Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases
Volume 18, Issue 6 , Pages 466-468 , November 2009

Interconversion of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale and Scandinavian Stroke Scale in Acute Stroke

  • Laura J. Gray, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  • Myzoon Ali, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Gardiner Institute, Western Infirmary Glasgow, United Kingdom
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  • Patrick D. Lyden, MD

      Affiliations

    • Stroke Center, University of California and Veterans Affairs, San Diego, California
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  • Philip M.W. Bath, MD, FRCP

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Neuroscience, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Philip M. W. Bath, Stroke Trials Unit, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Bldg, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham NG5 1PB UK.
    • ,
  • Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive Collaboration

Received 5 January 2009 ,Revised 29 January 2009 ,Accepted 11 February 2009.

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 Dr. Gray is supported, in part, by The Stroke Association (UK) and Medical Research Council (UK). Prof. Bath is Stroke Association Professor of Stroke Medicine.

 Presented as a poster at the European Stroke Conference in Glasgow in May 2008.

PII: S1052-3057(09)00034-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2009.02.003

Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases
Volume 18, Issue 6 , Pages 466-468 , November 2009

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