Patient and health system delays before registration among migrant patients with tuberculosis who were transferred out in China

Table 3 Linear regression for independent predictors of patient delay before registration among transferred out migrant patients with TB^a, China, 2014–15^b (N = 7262)^c

Variable	Β coefficient	95% CI	P value
Age group (in years)
< 15	−0.30	− 0.82, 0.21	0.250
15–44	− 0.23	− 0.34, − 0.12	< 0.001^{^}
45–64	0.03	− 0.09, 0.14	0.672
> =65	Ref	Ref	Ref
Gender
Male	Ref	Ref	Ref
Female	0.11	0.04, 0.19	0.003^{^}
Classification
PTB smear positive	0.33	0.19, 0.48	< 0.001^{^}
PTB smear negative	−0.04	−0.18, 0.10	0.572
PTB smear status unknown	0.37	−0.14, 0.89	0.157
Pleurisy	Ref	Ref	Ref
EPTB	1.02	−0.66, 2.70	0.235
Registered at referral hospital
Yes	Ref	Ref	Ref
No	−0.20	−0.27, − 0.13	< 0.001^{^}

TB tuberculosis, PTB pulmonary tuberculosis, EPTB extrapulmonary tuberculosis
^aregistered in web-based TB information management system
^blogarithmic transformation of delay variable done as it was not normally distributed, model building was done by stepwise (forward method) method and the final model has been presented; occupation, permanent residence, treatment category and HIV status, though considered, were excluded by the model (likelihood ratio test)
F stat = 20.8; Probability > F = < 0.001
^cof 7284, twenty two patient records were excluded because of missing information on dates to calculate delay
^{^}significant p-value < 0.05

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