Emergency Medicine Residents’ Performance with National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale and Its Impact on Key Stroke-care Metrics
The NIHSS is one element of stroke evaluation and management that can impact stroke metrics. Our intervention found that EM resident-led NIHSS assessment did not prolong DTCT, DTN, and DTGP times and met nationally established goals.
Authors
- Christopher Peabody (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3887-8930)
- Robert Nguyen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6186-3243)
- Meghan Hewlett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3654-2130)
- Newton Addo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-1804)
- Debbie Y. Madhok (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0694-9690)
- Angela Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2530-5727)
- Michael J. Boyle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9740-1630)
- Matthew Roces
- Trinidad Alacala-Arcos
Institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
- Published
- 2025-10-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.39671
- Primary Topic
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00