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. 2010 Sep 29;38(6):433–446. doi: 10.1007/s15010-010-0051-y

Table 3.

Delay duration and role of contact persons

Patient number First contact person Advised/forced to visit non-hospital health provider (what provider, lead to visit?) Contact person (s) that advised/forced to visit Sumve DDH (lead to hospital visit?) First health provider visited (TB diagnosed in this visit?) Visits made before TB diagnosis in Sumve DDHb Median total delayc (days) Median patient delay (days) Median provider delay (days) Median diagnostic delay (days) Median treatment delay (days) Median health system delayd (days)
1 (Laura) Neighbours   Advised by neighbours, former TB patient (no) Other hospitala (no)   237 14 0 220 3 223
2 (Steve) Family member Advised by son-in-law (dispensary, yes)   Sumve DDH (no) Traditional healer, dispensary 1,146 31 0 1,115 0 1,115
3 (Maria) Neighbour Advised by neighbour (traditional healer, yes) Advised by former TB patient (no) Dispensary (no) Traditional healer, pharmacy 159 120 36 3 0 3
4 (Jacob) Traditional healer   Advised by former TB patient (yes) Traditional healer (no) Pharmacy 235 14 205 16 0 16
5 Partner

Advised by wife

(traditional healer, yes)

Advised by former TB patient (no) Pharmacy (no) Traditional healer, dispensary 83 21 57 2 3 5
6 Family member   Advised by former TB patient (yes) Traditional healer (no) Pharmacy, dispensary 600 546 51 3 0 3
7 Family member     Sumve DDH (no)   595 190 0 403 2 405
8 Dispensary personnel   Advised by neighbours (yes) Dispensary (no) Other hospitala 160 45 96 18 1 19
9 Hospital personnel   Advised by former TB patient (no) Pharmacy (no)   94 14 74 4 2 6
10 (Lena) Partner Forced by older brother and husband (traditional healer, yes) Forced by older brother and husband (yes) Other hospitala (no) Traditional healer, Sumve DDH 443 396 0 46 1 47
11 Family members   Advised by family members (yes) Sumve DDH (no)   520 367 0 152 1 153
12 Traditional healer Advised by father (traditional healer, yes) Advised by traditional healer (yes) Traditional healer (no) Pharmacy, Sumve DDH, traditional healer 917 7 603 307 0 307
13 Family member Forced by mother (pharmacy, yes) Forced by mother (yes) Pharmacy (no)   32 3 11 9 9 18
14 (Sam) Neighbours Advised by neighbours (traditional healer, no) Advised by neighbours (yes) Pharmacy (no) Sumve DDH, Sumve DDH 335 95 34 206 0 206
15 Family member Forced by grandmother (dispensary, yes) Forced by grandmother (yes) Dispensary (no) Sumve DDH 226 45 157 22 2 24
16 Pharmacy personnel   Advised by family members (yes) Pharmacy (no)   300 62 234 4 0 4
17 Family members Forced by older family members (traditional healer, yes) Advised by traditional healer (yes) Other hospitala (no) Pharmacy, traditional healer 177 14 0 163 0 163
18 Family members Forced by older family members (traditional healer, yes) Forced by older family members (yes) Traditional healer (no) Other hospitala 199 122 14 62 1 63
19 (George) Traditional healer   Advised by neighbours, former TB patients (no) Traditional healer (no)   759 21 732 5 1 6
20 Pharmacy personnel   Advised by former TB patients (no) Pharmacy (no)   59 4 28 13 14 27
21 (David) Family member Forced by older brother (traditional healer, yes) Advised by traditional healer (yes) Pharmacy (no) Other hospitala, traditional healer 41 0 4 36 1 37
22 Pharmacy personnel   Advised by dispensary personnel (yes) Pharmacy (no) Traditional healer, dispensary, Sumve DDH 81 7 66 7 1 8
23 Family members Advised by neighbours (traditional healer, no) Advised by family members (yes) Sumve DDH (yes)   71 61 0 9 1 10
24 Family members Advised by family members (traditional healer, yes) Advised by family member (yes) Traditional healer (no) Dispensary 240 151 27 61 1 62
25 (Marc) Hospital personnel   Advised by neighbour (yes) Other hospitala (no) Pharmacy, traditional healer, Sumve DDH 160 7 0 152 1 153
26 Traditional healer     Traditional healer (no) Pharmacy 40 14 16 8 2 10
27 Traditional healer   Advised by neighbours, family members (no) Traditional healer (no) Pharmacy, dispensary, other hospitala 83 8 37 36 2 38
28 Family member Forced by grandmother (traditional healer, yes) Forced by grandmother (yes) Traditional healer (no)   92 0 80 8 4 12

aOther hospital = Ngudu hospital, the governmental hospital in Kwimba district, or a hospital in another district

bAll visits to hospitals or alternative health providers that were made after the first health provider visit and in which TB was not diagnosed, displayed in the order in which the visits were made

cSum of patient delay and health provider delay and health system delay

dSum of diagnostic delay and treatment delay