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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ever admitted to hospital for stroke tia (hospadm)

Data file: sts_stsf

Overview

Valid: 31

Invalid: 52

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 87

End: 87

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Was the patient admitted to hospital?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	12	38.7%
1	Yes, stroke	17	54.8%
2	Yes, TIA	2	6.5%
8	Don't know	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		52

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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If no, skip to section 8

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