|
Variable
|
Β coefficient
|
95% CI
|
P value
|
|---|
|
Permanent residence
|
|
Within prefecture
|
Ref
|
Ref
|
Ref
|
|
Within province
|
−0.004
|
− 0.10,0.09
|
0.932
|
|
Out of province
|
0.13
|
0.07,0.19
|
< 0.001^
|
|
Classification
|
|
PTB smear positive
|
−0.16
|
−0.27-0.06
|
0.003^
|
|
PTB smear negative
|
0.01
|
−0.09,0.12
|
0.784
|
|
PTB smear status unknown
|
0.40
|
0.02,0.77
|
0.037^
|
|
Pleurisy
|
Ref
|
Ref
|
Ref
|
|
EPTB
|
−0.77
|
−1.99,0.45
|
0.218
|
|
HIV
|
|
Positive
|
0.06
|
−0.64,0.77
|
0.864
|
|
Negative
|
Ref
|
Ref
|
Ref
|
|
Unknown
|
−0.33
|
−0.38,-0.28
|
< 0.001^
|
- TB tuberculosis, PTB pulmonary tuberculosis, EPTB extrapulmonary tuberculosis, HIV human immunodeficiency virus
- 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; age group, gender, occupation, treatment category and registration at referral hospital, though considered, were excluded by the model (likelihood ratio test)
- F stat for model = 26.8; 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
