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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Ever diagnosed with stroke / TIA (everdiag)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 169

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 299

End: 299

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Have you ever been diagnosed with stroke or TIA by a doctor or other health professional before this event?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	150	88.8%
1	Yes, stroke	11	6.5%
2	Yes, TIA	8	4.7%
8	Don't know	0	0%
9	Missing	0

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.

Question post text

If No go to Section 12

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