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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was onset of syptoms sudden (suddensymp)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 326

Invalid: 77

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 51

End: 51

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If Yes, STOP here and START the prevalent stroke form. If N or U continue with RAST.

Literal question

Was onset of symptoms SUDDEN?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes, sudden	154	47.2%
2	No, over days	86	26.4%
3	No, over weeks-months	77	23.6%
8	Unknown	9	2.8%
Sysmiss		77

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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