Delayed Treatment of Diagnosed Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Taiwan

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Distribution of the treatment delay for TB patients with definite laboratory diagnosis in Taiwan during 2002–2005

	2002		2003		2004		2005
Delay (Day)	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
0	2449	55.3	3993	55.9	5331	53.8	5703	54.6
1~10	1402	31.6	2720	38.1	4026	40.6	4215	40.3
11~20	279	6.3	201	2.8	270	2.7	250	2.4
21~30	114	2.6	77	1.1	99	1.0	106	1.0
31~40	46	1.0	52	0.7	49	0.5	47	0.4
41~50	31	0.7	20	0.3	30	0.3	31	0.3
51~60	21	0.5	21	0.3	18	0.2	19	0.2
61~70	21	0.5	10	0.1	24	0.2	14	0.1
71~80	18	0.4	9	0.1	13	0.1	9	0.1
81~90	11	0.2	7	0.1	5	0.1	10	0.1
91~100	8	0.2	12	0.2	8	0.1	6	0.1
101~180	32	0.7	24	0.2	32	0.4	44	0.3
Total	4432	100.0	7146	100.0	9905	100.0	10454	100.0
Mean of Treatment delay	6.1 days		3.3 days		3.1 days		3.0 days
Median/Mode of treatment delay	0.0 days		0.0 days		0.0 days		0.0 days

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