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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reason most recent admission in last 12 months (mnth12reasadmit)

Data file: sts_stsf

Overview

Valid: 27

Invalid: 56

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 184

End: 184

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If Q 11.2(mnth12admit) : Has the patient been admitted to Health Centre or Dispensary?>0, give reason for most recent admission to health centre or hospital?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Stroke	12	44.4%
2	TIA	2	7.4%
3	Malaria	1	3.7%
4	Pneumonia	0	0%
5	Surgery	0	0%
6	Other or blank	12	44.4%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		56

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 Q 17.2= 0 skip to Q 17.4

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