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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Nov 14, 2025

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Ever admited to hospital for stroke TIA (hospadm)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 19

Invalid: 150

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 310

End: 310

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

If no, skip to section 8

Literal question

Was the patient admitted to hospital?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	9	47.4%
1	Yes, stroke	8	42.1%
2	Yes, TIA	2	10.5%
8	Don't know	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		150

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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