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 1 (whyreasatt1)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 125

Invalid: 44

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 55

End: 55

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 1

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Patient very ill/severe symptoms at onset	52	41.6%
2	Patient condition getting worse since onset of symptoms	28	22.4%
3	In care for hypertension or other disease prior to stroke	2	1.6%
4	Guardian available now to bring patient	0	0%
5	Money available now for transport	0	0%
6	Believe clinic/hosp. care will help patient	1	0.8%
7	Other. Specify	1	0.8%
8	Unknown	41	32.8%
9	Missing	44

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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