Table 3a.
Median delay in days to care-seeking, diagnosis and treatment according to site of recruitment (N = 414).
| Delay type | Site of recruitment |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Center n = 138 | Public hospital n = 106 | Private hospital n = 104 | Private Practitioner n = 66 | p-value | ||
| Patient delay (n = 401)* | 31 (30–68) | 30 (10–55) | 15 (7–31) | 30 (14–31) | <0·001 | |
| Diagnostic delay | 28 (13–55) | 30 (12–68) | 19 (5–38) | 15 (3–46) | 0·05 | |
| Treatment delay | 1 (0–3) | 0 (0–1) | 1 (0–3) | 0 (0–2) | 0·001 | |
| Health system delay | 32 (15–60) | 30 (14–68) | 22 (9–39) | 16 (7–46) | 0·02 | |
| Total delay (n = 401)* | 80 (43–137) | 69 (38–127) | 45 (29–76) | 56 (34–102) | 0·001 | |