Table 3.
Univariate analyses of factors that predict longer waiting times
| Variables | Patient waiting time >30 days | Assessment waiting time >30 days | Treatment waiting time >30 days | Total waiting time >90 days | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR (95% CI) | p | OR (95% CI) | p | OR (95% CI) | p | OR (95% CI) | p | |
| Female sex | 1.0 (0.4–2.7) | 0.9959 | 0.9 (0.4–2.2) | 0.7993 | 0.3 (0.1–0.9) | 0.0251 | 0.9 (0.4–2.1) | 0.7869 |
| Age | 1.0 (0.97–1.05) | 0.6239 | 1.0 (0.9–1.0) | 0.1257 | 1.0 (0.9–1.0) | 0.9369 | 1.0 (0.9–1.0) | 0.1868 |
| Residence | ||||||||
| Large city | 0.4 (0.1–1.1) | 0.0023 | 0.7 (0.3–1.9) | 0.03082 | 0.6 (0.2–1.4) | 0.6632 | 0.3 (0.1–0.8) | 0.0011 |
| Medium city | 2.7 (0.7–10.0) | 0.0086 | 1.2 (0.4–4.0) | 0.4885 | 0.6 (0.2–2.3) | 0.7675 | 2.0 (0.5–9.2) | 0.0579 |
| Town or village | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Education | ||||||||
| Higher | 0.1 (0.04–0.8) | 0.3847 | 1.8 (0.3–9.9) | 0.8479 | 0.4 (0.1–1.5) | 0.3295 | 0.3 (0.1–1.5) | 0.1286 |
| Secondary | 0.1 (0.01–0.6) | 0.0699 | 2.7 (0.5–15.4) | 0.2463 | 0.4 (0.1–1.5) | 0.3149 | 0.5 (0.1–2.5) | 0.7829 |
| Vocational | 0.3 (0.06–1.1) | 0.8986 | 1.7 (0.3–9.4) | 0.9749 | 0.7 (0.2–2.5) | 0.6550 | 0.6 (0.1–2.8) | 0.8676 |
| Basic | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Regular visits to a GP | 0.4 (0.1–1.1) | 0.0792 | 1.0 (0.3–3.1) | 0.9958 | 0.6 (0.2–1.5) | 0.2569 | 0.9 (0.3–2.6) | 0.8167 |
| First technique visualizing the tumor: | ||||||||
| Ultrasound | 1.9 (0.4–9.1) | 0.4468 | 0.2 (0.1–0.7) | 0.0110 | 1.0 (0.3–3.4) | 0.9464 | 0.3 (0.1–1.3) | 0.1252 |
| CT/MRI | 0.4 (0.05–3.3) | 0.3860 | 2.6 (0.6–11.1) | 0.1962 | 1.2 (0.3–4.6) | 0.8144 | 2.8 (0.5–14.7) | 0.2216 |
| Cystoscopy | 1.0 (0.1–9.7) | 0.9715 | 10.9 (1.2–101.3) | 0.0364 | 0.6 (0.1–5.5) | 0.6757 | 2.7 (0.3–27.9) | 0.3983 |
| Private medical consultation in the course of diagnosis | 1.2 (0.5–3.0) | 0.6910 | 1.4 (0.6–3.2) | 0.4364 | 1.2 (0.5–2.8) | 0.6111 | 1.1 (0.5–2.5) | 0.7879 |
| First medical professional contact: | ||||||||
| Urologist | 3.0 (0.3–28.0) | 0.2666 | 1.3 (0.1–13.5) | 0.9241 | 1.0 (0.2–6.3) | 0.3918 | 2.2 (0.4–10.8) | 0.4742 |
| Emergency physician | 1.1 (0.1–14.1) | 0.4159 | 0.5 (0.02–9.2) | 0.2117 | 0.5 (0.1–4.1) | 0.4683 | 1.5 (0.3–8.4) | 0.7522 |
| GP | 3.4 (0.4–30.3) | 0.1469 | 6.0 (0.7–52.1) | 0.0012 | 0.6 (0.1–3.3) | 0.5676 | 2.5 (0.5–12.0) | 0.2448 |
| Other | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Presence of comorbidities | 1.0 (0.4–3) | 0.9205 | 0.4 (0.1–0.9) | 0.0241 | 1.6 (0.6–4.0) | 0.3593 | 1.2 (0.5–3.0) | 0.6830 |
| Knowledge that hematuria can be a symptom of BC | 0.3 (0.1–1.2) | 0.0980 | 0.7 (0.3–2.0) | 0.5042 | 1.0 (0.4–2.5) | 0.9237 | 0.5 (0.2–1.3) | 0.1796 |
BC – bladder cancer; CI – confidence interval; GP – general practitioner; OR – odds ratio