Patient Health Seeking and Diagnostic Delay in Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis: A Hospital Based Study from Central India

Table 4

Patient and health system delays in various forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (N=1220).

Median time (weeks) for; Delay#	Lymphadenitis; (n=698)	Pleural; (n=282)	Abdominal; (n=118)	Meningitis; (n=54)	Other; (n=68)
Patient	9.4	6.1	14.2	5.1	18
Health system	6.2	7.1	13	1.2	16.4

#p-value is significant (0.04) for the health system delay after controlling for the site of the EPTB.