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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Karonga HDSS

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reason participantv not interviewed (reasnotint)

Data file: sts_consent

Overview

Valid: 36

Invalid: 368

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 46

End: 46

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

If No to (intdone): Was participant interviewed? ,why

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Refused interview	1	2.8%
2	Aphasic (no voice)	15	41.7%
3	Too unwell	8	22.2%
4	Dementia	2	5.6%
5	Late ascertainment	0	0%
6	Ascertainment after death	9	25%
7	Not found	0	0%
8	Other (specify below)	1	2.8%
Sysmiss		368

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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