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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Reference ID

DDI-MWI-LL-MEIRU-STS-2015-v01

Producer(s)

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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Nov 19, 2025

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Admitted to health centre or dispensary (mnth12admit)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 64

Invalid: 105

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 487

End: 487

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

If Q 17.1(heightdone):Was height measured?;>0(No, too sick), has the patient been admitted to hospital in past 12 months?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Zero	37	57.8%
1	Once	23	35.9%
2	Twice	3	4.7%
3	More than twice or blank	1	1.6%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		105

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.

Question post text

If Q 17.2[weightdone]:Was weight measured?= 0(No, too sick) skip to Q 17.4[deidw]:Device ID for weight.

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