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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Who decided patient should attend 1 (whoreasatt1)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 126

Invalid: 43

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 52

End: 52

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

Who decided that the patient (participant) should attend clinic/hospital for treatment?;reason 1

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	The patient	23	18.3%
2	Spouse of patient	27	21.4%
3	Child of patient	23	18.3%
4	Other relative of patient	8	6.3%
5	Neighbor of patient	0	0%
6	Other. Specify	3	2.4%
8	Unknown	42	33.3%
9	Missing	43

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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