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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who was first contacted for help (firsthelp)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 326

Invalid: 77

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 91

End: 91

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Who was first contacted for help?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Village KI	14	4.3%
2	Village health worker	2	0.6%
3	Office	70	21.5%
4	Family member	196	60.1%
5	Neighbour	2	0.6%
6	Traditional healer	7	2.1%
7	Relative	18	5.5%
8	other (specify)	17	5.2%
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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