The Early Outcomes of Nurse Case Management in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke Treated with Intravenous Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 4

Mean and SD of NIHSS in experimental and control groups before and after receiving i.v. rt-PA within 24 hours by independent sample t-test analysis.

Parameters	Experimental group (n=38)		Control group; (n=38)		t-values; (t)
	Mean	Standard deviation (SD)	Mean	Standard deviation (SD)		p-value (P)
NIHSS before patients received i.v. rt-PA	13.2105	6.22618	14.1842	6.68138	.657	.513
NIHSS after patients received i.v. rt-PA	6.6579	6.39373	12.3947	7.66720	3.542	.001