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Editorial
. 2024 Sep 17;13(18):e037240.
doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.037240. Epub 2024 Sep 11.

Timing Is Everything, Even for the ENCHANTED National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale

Arjun K Rangan  1 , Gillian Gordon Perue  2
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Editorial

Timing Is Everything, Even for the ENCHANTED National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale

Arjun K Rangan et al. J Am Heart Assoc. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; NIHSS; acute ischemic stroke; stroke outcomes; stroke prediction.

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Figure 1. Comparison between contemporary acute ischemic prediction models for good functional outcome at 90 days.
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