Table 2.
Pre-consultation delays
| Characteristics | Descriptions | Patient delay, days Median (IQR) |
General practice delay, days Median (IQR) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entire cohort | All patients | 7 (27) | 8 (37) | ||
| Age |
< 70 > 70 |
11 (28) 6 (29) |
p = 0.80 |
7 (42) 10 (37) |
p = 0.99 |
| Gender |
Male Female |
7 (31) 8 (26) |
p = 0.99 |
8 (38) 9 (62) |
p = 0.88 |
| Smoking status |
Smokera Never |
6 (26) 19 (44) |
p = 0.46 |
8 (38) 19 (93) |
p = 0.36 |
| Primary symptom |
Hematuria Other |
9 (29) 6 (18) |
p = 0.57 |
8 (37) 19 (39) |
p = 1.00 |
| Primary contact |
Private health care Public health care |
5 (37) 7 (28) |
p = 0.68 |
17 (34) 7 (44) |
p = 0.54 |
Patient delay time from initiation of symptoms to the first contact with the health-care system; general practice delay time from the first contact with health-care system to referral to urologist consultation and cystoscopy
aCurrent and former smokers