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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notification event time of onset (timedaysymp)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 326

Invalid: 77

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 85

End: 85

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For the notification event, what was the onset of symptoms since waking?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	While awake [> 2 Hrs]	169	51.8%
2	Awake 1-2	18	5.5%
3	wake < 1Hr	27	8.3%
4	During sleep	79	24.2%
8	Unknown	33	10.1%
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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