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 5

Comparison of mean NIHSS at 24 hours after intravenous rt-PA between experimental group and control group by ANCOVA test [control variables which are not related to the experimental group but affected covariates include age, risk factors, subtype of infarct, severity of stroke, and time from stroke symptom onset to hospital (n=76)].

	df	Sum of square	Mean square	F	p-value
Covariates and the groups	1	616.235	616.235	25.484	.001
Risk factors	1	.238	.238	.011	.915
Age (years old)	1	12.954	12.954	.620	.434
Subtype of infarct	1	7.757	7.757	.371	.544
Time (minutes)	1	1743.261	1743.261	68.765	.461
Severity of stroke	1	1913.994	1913.994	83.232	.100
Error values	70	1461.833	20.883
Total	76	11210.000