Time to initiation of anti-tuberculosis treatment

Multiple perspectives on diagnosis delay for tuberculosis from key stakeholders in poor rural China: Case study in four provinces

“…This is in contrast to previous studies in China, and elsewhere which found that female TB patients experienced longer 'system' delay [8,10,24,25,23]. Other studies have not shown any significant effect of gender [26,13,16]. The shape and effects of gender roles and relations may vary significantly according to the specific socio-economic and cultural context, and interact with other factors of social disadvantage, so they may not always be easily captured by a simple comparison between males and females.…”

Características clínicas, epidemiológicas y microbiológicas de una cohorte de pacientes con tuberculosis pulmonar en Cali, Colombia

“…Varios estudios han denominado como "retraso diagnóstico" al tiempo comprendido entre el inicio de síntomas y el diagnóstico de tuberculosis pulmonar, y lo han reportado con un promedio de 1 a 2 meses (7,8). En nuestro país, en un estudio realizado en Bucaramanga se encontró una mediana de 120 días para establecer el diagnóstico de la enfermedad, asociada a factores como el desempleo y la falta de cobertura en salud (8).…”

Patient and health system delay among new pulmonary tuberculosis patients diagnosed at medical college hospitals in Puducherry, India

“…were produced. In some studies, experts agreed 30 days as acceptable cut-off for delay 12,13 whereas others used median value of the observed data as a cut-off 8,14,15 and we adopted the later to dichotomize data into delayed and not delayed. A multivariate regression analysis was performed to adjust for the confounding effect of several identified determinants of patient and health system delay of TB patients (Table 3).…”