Table 4 Treatment, severity of disease and time-delays in health care – laboratory-confirmed cases of giardiasis, Bergen 1/9 – 15/11 2004
From: A large community outbreak of waterborne giardiasis- delayed detection in a non-endemic urban area
Yes | Total | Percentage | Average | Median | Range | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Duration (days) | - | 82 | - | 32 d | 30 | 6 – 60 |
Weight loss | 67 | 81 | 83% | 5.4 kg | 5 | 1 – 23 |
Physician contacts (visits or phone) | 72 | 73 | 99% | 4.4 times | 3 | 1 – 21 |
Absence from work/school | 54 | 76 | 71% | 10.5 d | 8 | 1 – 30 |
Hospitalisation | 6 | 83 | 7.2% | 3.8 d | 2.5 | 1 – 11 |
Antibiotic treatment | 57* | 83 | 69% | - | - | - |
Patient delay in contacting health services (days) | - | 74 | - | 17.1 d | 16.5 | 0 – 44 |
Physician delay in start of treatment (days) | - | 47 | - | 18.0 d | 15.5 | 0 – 54 |
Total delay between symptom onset and start of treatment (days) | - | 51 | - | 33.1 d | 31 | 9 – 69 |