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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which department was the patient admitted to (hospdep)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 30

Invalid: 139

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 282

End: 282

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 3

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If yes to (hospadmitprev):Was the patient admitted to hospital? If no, skip to section 8, which department was patient admitted to?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Short stay only	3	10%
2	High Depend Unit	1	3.3%
3	Inpatient ward (after short stay)	26	86.7%
Sysmiss		139

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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