TABLE 3.
Providers of TB Care for 280 Sampled Patients Alive at Diagnosis With No Previously Known HIV Status, California, 2008
Among Patients Sampled, n (%) | |
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Provider involved with TB diagnosis | |
Public | 37 (13.2) |
Private | 187 (66.8) |
Both | 53 (18.9) |
Unknown | 3 (1.1) |
Provider initiating TB treatment | |
Public | 103 (36.8) |
Private | 172 (61.4) |
Unknown or no treatment | 5 (1.8) |
Provider for majority of TB treatment | |
Public | 186 (66.4) |
Private | 88 (31.4) |
Unknown or no treatment | 6 (2.1) |
Ever visited public TB clinic | |
Yes | 205 (73.2) |
No | 74 (26.4) |
Unknown | 1 (0.4) |
Abbreviations: HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; TB, tuberculosis.