Web Sites for Stroke Scales

• Brain Attack Coalition - Acute Stroke Toolbox
  Includes numerous detailed protocols for urgent stroke management and tPA administration.
• American Academy of Neurology - NeuroTools
  On-line tools for acute stroke management and tracking; David Stumpf, M.D.
• Handbook of Neurologic Rating Scales
  Robert M. Herndon, M.D. - Demos-Verande Medical Publishing.
• Clinician's Guide to the Choice of Instruments for Quality of Life Assessment in Medicine
  Lists of more than 200 scales and instruments for patient assessment.  Division of Psychology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Italy.
• E-tools - National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics
  Includes on-line tPA decision calculator, NIH stroke scale and other interactive forms for emergency medicine.
• Center on Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury
  Detailed information on several outcome scales.
• Kansas University Stroke Toolbox
  Downloadable Microsoft Access database for individual patient tracking; includes many stroke scales and outcome measurements; KU Center on Aging.
• We Move
  Spasticity examination ratings scales and articles.

Overviews of Stroke Scales

• Preferred standard instruments for patient assessment in stroke
  From U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) report (1995)
• Review of stroke assessment scales, appendix to The American Heart Association Stroke Outcome Classification (1998)
  Excellent summary table.   (Note: BADL and IADL refer to Basic and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living.)
• Traumatic Brain Injury Outcome Scale References
  From the Center for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.