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

Malawi, 2014 - 2017

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DDI-MWI-KA-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

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Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor MiaCrampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Karonga HDSS

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duration of hospital admission (durhospadm)

Data file: sts_rast

Overview

Valid: 53

Invalid: 350

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 129

End: 129

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

If admitted, for what duration?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Less than a week	33	62.3%
2	1-2 weeks	11	20.8%
3	More than 4 weeks	9	17%
4	Currently admitted	0	0%
Sysmiss		350

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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