STS Hospital-level stroke surveillance in Chilumba, Malawi: providing tools for evaluating interventions in hypertension and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa Karonga

Malawi, 2014 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-KA-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor MiaCrampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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cause of death (cod)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 9

Invalid: 394

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 42

End: 42

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Cause of death

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Complication of stroke	5	55.6%
2	Second stroke	0	0%
3	Infection	0	0%
4	Heart disease	0	0%
5	Other medical	2	22.2%
8	Unknown	2	22.2%
Sysmiss		394

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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