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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Reference ID

DDI-MWI-LL-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

Producer(s)

Professor Moffat Nyirenda, Professor Mia Crampin, Dr Alison Price, , , ,

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Lilongwe HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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destination of patient at discharge (dischdest)

Data file: stsl_stsf_partb

Overview

Valid: 122

Invalid: 46

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 131

End: 131

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If alive at discharge, record the date of discharge

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	???	0	0%
1	Home in Lilongwe	113	92.6%
2	Rural home	1	0.8%
3	Other hospital	3	2.5%
4	Relatives house	2	1.6%
5	Other	3	2.5%
9	Missing	19
Sysmiss		27

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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