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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Barthel ADL prior to stroke transfer (adltranspr)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 169

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 292

End: 292

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 3

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Barthel ADL prior to stroke:
Check if the participant requires help with the following activity:
Transfer (bed to chair and back)

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Unable	1	0.6%
1	Major help (1-2 people)	1	0.6%
2	Minor help ( verbal or physical)	4	2.4%
3	Independent	163	96.4%

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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