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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Nov 14, 2025

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stroke diagnosed before (diagbef)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 359

Invalid: 44

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 50

End: 50

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

If Q 2.2(whensymp)When did the symptoms start? = earlier than 2015, did patient have a diagnosis of stroke before?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	280	78%
1	Yes	77	21.4%
8	Unknown	2	0.6%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		44

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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