Patient's site of first access to health system influences length of delay for tuberculosis treatment in Tajikistan

Table 4 Health care facility visited by TB patients

	#patients visiting facility in first instance	mean #visits (all patients)	#visits among patients who visited§
Medical house	22 (10.8%)	0.23	1.88
Rural Health Centre	36 (17.7%)	0.45	2.04
Polyclinic	17 (8.3%)	0.28	2.19
Private clinic	0 (0.0%)	0.00	0.00
Central District Hospital	39 (19.1%)	0.83	1.77
Republican Hospital	15 (7.4%)	0.53	1.96
District TB facility	41 (20.1%)	1.86	2.16
Health facility in Russia	20 (9.8%)	0.25	2.60
Other facility†	14 (6.9%)	0.39	1.65
Sum	204 (100%)	4.83	N/A

§Mean number of visits among those patients who visited the respective facility.
†Including a health care facility reserved to staff of a large industrial company and Ministry of Defence facilities.

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