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 3 (whoreasatt3)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 9

Invalid: 160

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 54

End: 54

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 3

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	The patient	1	11.1%
2	Spouse of patient	0	0%
3	Child of patient	1	11.1%
4	Other relative of patient	5	55.6%
5	Neighbor of patient	1	11.1%
6	Other. Specify	1	11.1%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	33
Sysmiss		127

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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