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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patient type (patienttype)

Data file: sts_stsp

Overview

Valid: 68

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 30

End: 30

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 7

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

patient type

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Ki notification from monthly/annual update session	4	5.9%
1	KI notification from community	22	32.4%
2	KPS staff notification from community	37	54.4%
3	Referred to hospital by KPS staff following home visit	0	0%
4	Referred self to hospital for assessment (independent of KPS/KI)	1	1.5%
5	Found in clinic register and followed to home	3	4.4%
6	Seen at clinic (inpatient)	0	0%
7	Seen in clinic (outpatient)	1	1.5%

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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