TABLE 2—
Characteristics of Community Care Centers Related to Early Isolation: Sierra Leone, 2014–2015
| Characteristic | CCCs, No. (%) or Mean | Other Ebola Facilities,a No. (%) or Mean | OR (95% CI) |
| Early isolation: time to isolation among patients accessing CCCs vs other Ebola facilities, CCC database vs national Viral Hemorrhagic Fever data set (Nov 2014–Jan 2015) | |||
| Proportion of EVD suspects detected | 322/699 (46) | 377/699 (54) | |
| Proportion of confirmed EVD cases detected | 62/206 (30) | 144/206 (70) | |
| Time between symptom onset and isolation < 4 d | 194/228b (85) | 342/699 (49) | 6.0 (4.0, 9.1) |
| Estimated days between symptom onset and isolation | 2.9 | 5.8 |
Note. CCC = Community Care Center; CI = confidence interval; EVD = Ebola virus disease; OR = odds ratio.
a
Includes Ebola treatment centers and holding centers.
b
Symptom onset information only collected for patients admitted to CCCs and not for suspected cases that were immediately transferred. For some patients, symptom-onset information was uninterpretable and removed.