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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type of stroke diagnosed (strtype)

Data file: sts_stsp

Overview

Valid: 5

Invalid: 63

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 53

End: 53

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

type of stroke diagnosed

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Did not have a diagnosis	0	0%
1	Ischaemic stroke	0	0%
2	Haemorrhagic stroke	0	0%
3	Subarachnoid	5	100%
4	TIA	0	0%
5	Unspecified stroke	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		63

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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