Effect of first visit to different levels of medical institutions on diagnostic and treatment delays in pulmonary tuberculosis in Ningxia, China: a cross-sectional study from 2015 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to investigate the effect of first visit to different levels of medical institutions on diagnostic and treatment delays of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients, assess the current situation and potential problems of different-level medical institutions, and put forward constructive recommendations for policy-making to reduce the delayed behaviours among PTB patients in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR).

Setting

NHAR, China.

Design

We collected information on all PTB patients in the NHAR identified through China's National Tuberculosis Information Management System (TBIMS) between 2015 and 2019. Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to create balanced data excluding the effects of covariates. The inverse probability of treatment weight was

SUBMITTER: Li W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12658550 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature