These include: Hospital lifetime reserve days: Medicare Part A covers a stay in the hospital for any single spell of illness or injury within a time frame of 90 days. This is known as a benefit period, and thereâs no limit to the number of benefit periods you can have. But if you need to stay in the hospital for more than 90 days with the same illness or injury, you have the option of using some of your 60 lifetime reserve days.
Pain measures fall into 2 categories: 1  Single-dimensional scales - These scales assess a single dimension of pain and, through patient self-reporting, measure only pain intensity; these scales are useful in acute pain when the etiology is clear; see the image below Faces Pain Rating Scale.
The NIH scale is, however, the standard that stroke scales developed for EMS are compared to for sensitivity and specificity. 4. Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale. The Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale (CPSS) takes the least amount of time to perform and is one of the most widely used in EMS. The CPSS or, as it is sometimes referred to, Cincinnati scale assesses for: Facial droop Ask the patient to smile and show their teeth. A droop to one side is a positive finding.