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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Reference ID

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

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

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Karonga HDSS

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barthel adl at interview bowels (adlbowint)

Data file: sts_stsf

Overview

Valid: 83

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 98

End: 98

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Barthel ADL prior to stroke:
Check if the participant experiences bowel incontinence

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Incontinence or catheterized and unable to manage	17	20.5%
1	Occasional accident	4	4.8%
2	Continent (for over 7 days) (max once per 24 hours)	62	74.7%

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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