STS Hospital-level stroke surveillance in Lilongwe, Malawi: providing tools for evaluating interventions in hypertension and stroke in sub-Saharan Africa Lilongwe

Malawi, 2015 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-LL-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Mia Crampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Lilongwe HDSS

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Reason Participant not Interviewed (reasnotint)

Data file: stsl_cons

Overview

Valid: 62

Invalid: 110

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 28

End: 28

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

If not to [intdone]: Was participant interviewed? ,why

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Refused interview	0	0%
2	Aphasic (no voice)	5	8.1%
3	Too unwell	53	85.5%
4	Dementia	0	0%
5	Late ascertainment	3	4.8%
6	Ascertainment after death	0	0%
7	Not found	1	1.6%
8	Other (specify below)	0	0%
Sysmiss		110

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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