Patient delay
Patient delay is the main cause of treatment delay in acute limb ischemia: an investigation of pre- and in-hospital time delay
... in-hospital delay than patients who needed immediately ...hospital delay cannot be expected to be the same in other locations, although the method used may be thought of as an inspiration for local analyses ...
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Patient delay in cancer studies: a discussion of methods and measures
... Today, patient delay estimates are based on patients reporting about presence of ...of delay thus depend on the presence of a specific sign or sensation and at the same time the patients ...
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Patient delay in seeking tuberculosis diagnosis and associated factors in Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia
... median patient delay in tuberculosis diagnosis in Hadiya Zone was found to be 30 ...with patient delay in tuberculosis ...of patient delay in tuberculosis ...
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Symptom Interval and Patient Delay Affect Survival Outcomes in Adolescent Cancer Patients
... Between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2007, 914 patients aged 0–18 years of age were diagnosed with cancer and treat- ed at Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea. Of these patients, we ...
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Patient Delay in Accessing Breast Cancer Care in a Sub Saharan African Country: Uganda
... cancer delay is defined in the literature as a span of more than three months between the discovery of symptoms by the patient and the beginning of definitive cancer treatment ...types: patient and ...
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Healthcare seeking behavior, treatment delays and its determinants among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in rural Nigeria: a cross sectional study
... total delay was 11 (IQR 9 – 16) weeks, patient delay 8 (IQR 8 – 12) and health system (HS) delay 3 (IQR 1 – 4) ...increased patient delay were older age (P ...HS delay. ...
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Reducing delay in patients with acute coronary syndrome and other time-critical conditions: a systematic review to identify the behaviour change techniques associated with effective interventions
... A comprehensive search strategy was developed to identify primary studies evaluating interventions aimed at reducing patient delay. Five electronic databases— Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cumulative ...
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Time delays in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review of literature
... time delay from the onset of symptoms until the diagnosis is ...for patient delay should not be more than 2 or 3 weeks ...HICs patient delay far exceeded this limit by about 10– 15 ...
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Factors associated with patient, and diagnostic delays in Chinese TB patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... The review showed that rural residence was an im- portant determinant of patient delay in seeking and receiving care for TB. It is estimated that a third of TB suspects in China’s rural settings do not seek ...
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Delay in Tuberculosis Diagnosis among Tuberculosis Patients at the Three Hospitals: Asella, Robe and Abomsa of Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, March, 2015
... any delay in the diagnosis and treatment of TB can foster TB transmission and ...time delay for TB diagnosis and determi- nants of patient delay would help in prioritizing the TB control ...
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Estimates of delays in diagnosis of cervical cancer in Nepal
... diagnostic delay was 157 days with more than three fourth ...diagnostic delay of >90 days. Out of the total diagnostic delay, median patient delay, median health care provider ...
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Smoking Effects on Clinical Manifestations and Drug Resistance Patterns in Pulmonary TB Patients
... decrease patient delay and at the same time, decrease the period during which a TB patient unknowingly transmits the disease to ...diagnostic delay was shorter in ever- smokers and longer in ...
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Time Delay and Associated Factors in Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Markazi Province
... as patient delay while the interval from the time of visit to diagnosis was defined as health system diagnosis delay, treatment delay was the time interval from diagnosis until treatment was ...
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Socioeconomic patient characteristics predict delay in cancer diagnosis: a Danish cohort study
... the patient attends the GP with a symptom that may be related to cancer in general and not to a specific cancer diagnosis, and that the patient seeks help to interpret this ...into patient ...
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Delay in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in low-and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-analysis
... Our pooled analysis showed that illiterate patients were more likely to delay in seeking care compared to those patients who had formal education (pooled OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 1.1–1.9). Illiteracy may limit patients’ ...
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Patient and provider delay in tuberculosis suspects from communities with a high HIV prevalence in South Africa: A cross sectional study
... Longer patient delay resulted in increased need for referral for inpatient TB ...of patient delays. More importantly provider delay resulted in increased mortality underlining the importance ...
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Patient and health care system delays in the start of tuberculosis treatment in Norway
... total delay of 63 days from the onset of symptoms to the start of TB treatment for all 83 ...system delay for all patients included in the study exceeded the median patient ...system delay was ...
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Delay in Diagnosis and Treatment among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in Bhavnagar City – A Cross Sectional Study
... program. Delay in diagnosis is significant to both disease prognosis at the individual level and transmission within the ...Tuberculosis Patient. 2. To document patient, provider, total delay ...
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Stroke warning campaigns: delivering better patient outcomes? A systematic review
... Conclusions: Positive intervention effects were reported in the majority of studies; however, methodological weaknesses evident in a number of studies limited the generalizability of the observed effects. Reporting of ...
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Outcome of acute East African trypanosomiasis in a Polish traveller treated with pentamidine
... A delay in medical diagnosis or in- appropriate treatment of the disease, which is usually rarely considered in the differential diagnosis of fever in a patient returning from tropical areas, may lead to ...
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