A Multicenter Diagnostic Accuracy Study on Prehospital Stroke Screening Scales

CONCLUSION: Based on the findings of the present study, highly sensitive tests that can be used in this regard are Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale (CPSS), Face-Arm-Speech-Time (FAST), and Med PACS, all of which have about 95% sensitivity. On the other hand, none of the studied tools were desirable (specificity above 95%) in any of the examined cut-offs.PMID:34488307 | DOI:10.34172/aim.2021.65
Source: Archives of Iranian Medicine - Category: Middle East Health Authors: Source Type: research