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 assisted at home prior to event (whoassist)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 7

Invalid: 162

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 285

End: 285

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If Q 8.1(assistreq):Did the patient require assistance at home before this illness event? =yes, who assisted the patient at home before this illness event?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Spouse	1	14.3%
2	Child	6	85.7%
3	Relative	0	0%
4	Friend/neighbour	0	0%
5	Paid employee	0	0%
Sysmiss		162

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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