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

Table 6 Linear regression for independent predictors of health system treatment initiation 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
Occupation
Studying	0.01	−0.01,0.04	0.370
Farmers and herdsmen	−0.02	−0.04,-0.004	0.013^{^}
Semi-skilled employee	−0.003	−0.05,0.05	0.899
Salaried employee	−0.03	−0.05,-0.01	0.002^{^}
Non-salaried employee	0.001	−0.03,0.03	0.970
Unemployed	Ref	Ref	Ref
Others	−0.01	−0.04,0.02	0.523
Permanent residence
Within prefecture	Ref	Ref	Ref
Within province	−0.02	−0.04,0.01	0.134
Out of province	−0.03	−.0.05,-0.02	< 0.001^{^}
Classification
PTB smear positive	0.02	−0.002,0.05	0.071^{^}
PTB smear negative	−0.01	−0.04,0.01	0.391
PTB smear status unknown	0.25	0.16,0.35	< 0.001^{^}
Pleurisy	Ref	Ref	Ref
EPTB	−0.03	−0.33,0.27	0.830
Category
New	−0.04	−0.07,-0.01	0.014^{^}
Retreated	Ref	Ref	Ref
HIV
Positive	−0.07	−0.24,0.10	0.425
Negative	Ref	Ref	Ref
Unknown	−0.34	−0.05,-0.02	< 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 and registration at referral hospital, though considered, were excluded by the model (likelihood ratio test)
F stat for model = 10.6; 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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