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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sought care health clinic / hospital last 12 months (mnth12care)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 169

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 486

End: 486

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Literal question

In the past 12 months has the patient sought care at health clinic or hospital (for any illness)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Zero	105	62.1%
1	Once	28	16.6%
2	Twice	16	9.5%
3	More than twice or blank	20	11.8%
9	Missing	0

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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