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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What influenced this visit 2 (whyreasatt2)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 40

Invalid: 129

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 56

End: 56

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Why did they come the clinic/hospital now? What influenced them coming now?;reason 2

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Patient very ill/severe symptoms at onset	1	2.5%
2	Patient condition getting worse since onset of symptoms	30	75%
3	In care for hypertension or other disease prior to stroke	7	17.5%
4	Guardian available now to bring patient	1	2.5%
5	Money available now for transport	0	0%
6	Believe clinic/hosp. care will help patient	0	0%
7	Other. Specify	1	2.5%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	29
Sysmiss		100

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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