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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reason most recent admission in last 12 months (mnth12reasadmit)

Data file: stsl_stsf_parta

Overview

Valid: 27

Invalid: 142

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 488

End: 488

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 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
1	Stroke	4	14.8%
2	TIA	1	3.7%
3	Malaria	11	40.7%
4	Pneumonia	0	0%
5	Surgery	0	0%
6	Other or blank	11	40.7%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		142

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= 0 skip to Q 17.4

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