Table 3. Patient and health system delay in diagnosis and treatment initiation among migrant TB patients that were transferred out using web-based TBIMS, China (2014–2015) (N = 7284)^*.

Delays	Patients	Median in days	(IQR)
Patient delay (a)	7275	16	(6–34)
Health system diagnosis delay (b)	7283	1	(0–5)
Health system treatment delay (c)	7270	0	(0–0)
Health system delay (b+c)	7269	2	(0–6)
Diagnosis delay (a+b)	7275	21	(10–40)
Total Delay (a+b+c)	7262	22	(11–41)

TB–tuberculosis; IQR–Interquartile Range; TBIMS–tuberculosis information management system

*dates missing for some patients

a—Patient delay–date of symptom onset to date of first visit to a doctor.

b -Health system diagnosis delay–date of first visit to a doctor to date of diagnosis as TB.

c—Health system treatment delay–date of diagnosis to date of treatment initiation.