stages of patient care | Classes of determinants or potential distorting factors | References |
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Perception of the illness and Health care access | Form and perceived severity of illness | |
Etiological concept and type of disease | ||
Individual characteristics of patients | ||
Socio-economic characteristics of patients | ||
Attractiveness factors of places | ||
Geographical accessibility | ||
Characteristics of the environment | ||
Urbanization | ||
Movements of population | [84] | |
Diagnosis | Presence of an intervention program | |
Functioning of health services: quality of service and framework | ||
Staff competence | ||
Lack of supplementary diagnosis | ||
Lack of clinical standardized decision tree for diagnosing | ||
Difficulty of differential diagnosis with other diseases | ||
Spatial distribution of disease | ||
Data reporting | Staff competence | [84] |
Standardization of data collection tools | ||
Large volume of work | [31] | |
Falsification of data | [31] | |
Typing errors | ||
Integration of the disease into a national or global strategy | ||
Characteristic of the response |