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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Reference ID

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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arm circumference (muac)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 325

Invalid: 78

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 199

End: 199

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

If <24cm, use paediatric cuff , if 24-32cm use regular cuff and if 33-41cm use large cuff

Literal question

Arm circumference [cm]

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	<24cm	14	4.3%
2	24-32cm	298	91.7%
3	33-41cm	13	4%
9	Missing	0	0%
Sysmiss		78

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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