Research article
Diagnostic and treatment delay among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: a cross sectional study
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* Corresponding author: Solomon Yimer yimsolo@yahoo.com
1 Amhara National Regional State Health Bureau, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
2 Department of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
3 Department of Community Health, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia
BMC Infectious Diseases 2005, 5:112 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-5-112
Published: 12 December 2005Additional files
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Associations of soci-demographic and health service factors with health providers' delay. In this table the associations of soci-demographic and health service factors with health providers' delay have been analyzed. It shows that patients who lived within 10 Km radius of a medical facility, those who were 9th grade and above and those who attended formal health providers initially were less likely to have longer health providers' delay.
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Associations of socio-demographic and health service factors with patients' delay. From this table we can see that those who lived beyond 10 Km radius of a medical facility, those who were >45 years age and who used self-treatment had increased risk of patients' delay.
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Associations of socio-demographic and health service factors with health systems' delay. This table shows the association of socio-demographic and health services factors with health systems' delay. We found that patients who first visited a health post/clinic or a private medical provider were significantly associated with increased health systems' delay.
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