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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type of stroke (strokesubtype)

Data file: stsl_dimg

Overview

Valid: 2

Invalid: 107

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 70

End: 70

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Type of stroke/TIA?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Did not have a diagnosis	0	0%
1	Ischaemic stroke	1	50%
2	Haemorrhagic stroke	1	50%
3	Subarachnoid	0	0%
4	TIA	0	0%
5	Unspecified stroke	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		107

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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