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标题：Differing Influence on Delays in the Case-Finding Process for Tuberculosis Between General Physicians and Specialists in Mongolia
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作者：Shagdarsurengiin Enkhbat ; Makoto Toyota ; Nobufumi Yasuda 等
期刊名称：Journal of Epidemiology
印刷版ISSN：0917-5040
电子版ISSN：1349-9092
出版年度：1997
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：93-98
DOI：10.2188/jea.7.93
出版社：Japan Epidemiological Association
摘要：The objective of this study is to compare the influence on delays in the tuberculosis casefinding process according to the types of medical facilities initially visited. The subjects include 107 patients 16 years and older who were diagnosed with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis at nine tuberculosis specialized facilities in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from May 1995 to March 1996. Patients were interviewed about their demographic and socioeconomic factors and their medical records were reviewed for measuring delays. Fifty-five patients initially consulted general physicians and the remaining 52 patients initially visited other types of facilities including tuberculosis specialized facilities. Patients who initially consulted general physicians had shorter patient's delays and longer doctor's delays than those who had visited other facilities first. Since the reduction of patient's delay outweighs the extension of doctor's delay among patients who initially consulted general physicians, their total delay was shorter than that of patients who visited other facilities first. The beneficial influence of consulting general physicians first on the total delay was observed after adjusting for patient's age, sex, residence area, family income and family history of tuberculosis. This finding indicates that general physicians play an important role in improving the passive case-finding process in Mongolia. J Epidemiol , 1997; 7 : 93-98.
关键词：general physicians;delays;diagnosis of tuberculosis;specialists;Mongolia