Table 3.
Interval time from illness onset to diagnosis of scrub typhus cases
| Province/ municipality/ autonomous region | Interval between illness onset and case diagnosis, days (median [IQR]) | Deaths(n = 57) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Primary medical centre | County hospital | City hospital | ||
| Guangdong (n = 25 586) | 5 (1–9) | 4 (1–8) | 5 (2–9) | 5 (1–10) | 28 |
| Yunnan (n = 20 690) | 4 (2–7) | 3 (1–5) | 5 (2–8) | 7 (4–11) | 11 |
| Anhui (N = 9737) | 5 (2–8) | 1 (1–2) | 5 (2–7) | 6 (2–10) | 1 |
| Jiangsu (n = 7127) | 5 (2–9) | 5 (3–7) | 5 (2–9) | 7 (2–11) | 0 |
| Fujian (n = 7062) | 6 (2–10) | 5 (2–9) | 6 (2–10) | 6 (0–11) | 7 |
| Shandong (n = 6866) | 6 (4–9) | 5 (3–7) | 6 (4–9) | 7 (4–10) | 1 |
| Guangxi (n = 5476) | 6 (2–10) | 4 (1–7) | 5 (2–9) | 7 (3–11) | 5 |
| Jiangxi (n = 3371) | 8 (4–13) | 5 (2–8) | 7 (4–11) | 11 (6–17) | 1 |
| Sichuan (n = 2508) | 6 (3–10) | 4 (1–6) | 6 (3–9) | 10 (6–15.25) | 0 |
| Hainan (n = 1541) | 5 (2–9) | 4 (1–6) | 5 (2–8) | 8 (4–13) | 0 |
| Zhejiang (n = 1135) | 5 (0–9) | 5 (1–8) | 5 (2–9) | 1 (0–9) | 0 |
| Beijing (n = 759) | 5.5 (3.75–8) | -a | 5 (3.25–7) | 12.5 (3.75–19) | 0 |
| Hunan (n = 738) | 6 (3–11) | 2 (0–4) | 5 (2–8) | 10 (5–16) | 1 |
| Shanxi (n = 342) | 6 (4–9) | – | 5 (4–7) | 7 (4–11) | 0 |
| Henan (n = 249) | 6 (2–9) | 7.5 (2.5–9.5) | 5 (2–8) | 8 (4–12) | 0 |
| Liaoning (n = 57) | 9 (7–14) | 8 (6.5–12.5) | 10 (7–14) | 2 (2–2) | 0 |
| Hubei (n = 53) | 5 (1.5–9) | – | 4 (1.25–8) | 7 (0–11) | 1 |
| Guizhou (n = 42) | 7 (3–13.25) | – | 4 (3–7) | 8 (4–14) | 1 |
| Chongqing (n = 38) | 3 (0–9) | – | 5 (0.5–10) | 2 (0–9) | 0 |
| Tianjin (n = 32) | 5 (2.25–8.75) | – | 11 (11–11) | 5 (1.75–8.25) | 0 |
| Heilongjiang (n = 24) | 6.5 (5–8.75) | – | 7 (5–9) | 0 (0–0) | 0 |
| Hebei (n = 11) | 8 (3–11) | – | 8 (5–9.5) | 7.5 (0–25.5) | 0 |
| Overall | 5 (2–7) | 4 (1–7) | 5 (2–8) | 6 (2–11) | 57 |
a “-” indicates no data or few data (less than ten cases).