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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how was patient transported to clinic (transclin)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 84

Invalid: 85

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 267

End: 267

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

How was the patient transported to the clinic?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Walked	6	7.1%
2	Carried	0	0%
3	Bike taxi	15	17.9%
4	Car taxi	10	11.9%
5	Private car	43	51.2%
6	Oxcart	2	2.4%
7	Ambulance	1	1.2%
8	Other. Specify	7	8.3%
9	Missing	85

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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