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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ever diagnose with stroke tia by health professional (everdiag)

Data file: sts_stsf

Overview

Valid: 83

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 84

End: 84

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you ever been diagnosed with stroke or TIA by a doctor or other health professional before this event?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	52	62.7%
1	Yes, stroke	26	31.3%
2	Yes, TIA	5	6%
8	Don't know	0	0%
9	Missing	0

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.

Question post text

If No go to Section 12

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