Table 2.

Health system delay and the patients' costs by the type of first health facility contacted among adult patients with newly diagnosed tuberculosis at Ballabgarh, India

Variable	First health facility contact		P-value
	Private (n = 83)	Public (n = 27)
Median total delay,* days (IQR)	40 (25–63)	23 (15–42)	0.007
Median health system delay,† days (IQR)	24 (10–48)	10 (7–14)	0.000
Median direct pre-diagnosis cost, $ (IQR)	38.5 (19.5–84.2)	11.3 (4.5–28.6)	0.000
Median indirect pre-diagnosis cost, $ (IQR)	38.5 (16.8–140.3)	70.1 (16.6–192.4)	0.295
Median total pre-diagnosis cost, $ (IQR)	115.9 (46.3–204.3)	92.0 (48.6–194.8)	0.864

Bold values indicate significant P-value < 0.05.

^*Total delay is the time interval from the onset of symptoms till the date of antitubercular treatment initiation.

^†Health system delay is the time interval from the health facility contact till the date of initiation of TB treatment.