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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glasgow coma scale verbal (glasverbal)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 326

Invalid: 77

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 164

End: 164

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Symptoms on initial examination:
Verbal

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	No speech	15	4.6%
2	Incomprehensible speech	8	2.5%
3	Inappropriate speech	3	0.9%
4	Confused conversation	7	2.1%
5	Oriented	293	89.9%
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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