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 diagnosis (diagtype)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 164

Invalid: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 127

End: 127

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If Q 3.1 (diagyn):Has the patient received a clinical diagnosis of stroke or TIA? = Yes, What type of event was diagnosed?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Did not have a diagnosis	0	0%
1	Ischaemic stroke	67	40.9%
2	Haemorrhagic stroke	7	4.3%
3	Subarachnoid	0	0%
4	TIA	36	22%
5	Unspecified stroke	54	32.9%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		5

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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