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Table 1 Health Delay: Total number of cases, number (%) of dropped (drop.) cases, final sample size, statistics for the delay in days - 25% and 75% percentiles, mean, median and standard deviation (Mainland Portugal (PT), by region, by gender and by age category)

From: A temporal analysis on patient and health service delays in pulmonary tuberculosis in Portugal: inter and intra‑regional differences and in(equalities) between gender and age

 

cases

drop.

% drop.

n

p25

p75

mean

median

sd

Mainland PT

15,084

3,654

24.2

11,430

2

36.0

28.5

10.0

45.7

Region

  Alentejo

537

136

25.3

401

2

51.0

35.4

14.0

48.8

  Algarve

776

321

41.4

455

3

31.5

24.4

10.0

36.7

  Center

1,400

452

32.3

948

1

36.0

26.6

8.0

41.6

  LTV

5,918

1,399

23.6

4,519

2

38.0

30.2

10.0

49.3

  North

6,453

1,346

20.9

5,107

2

34.0

27.3

10.0

43.5

Gender

  Male

10,574

2,518

23.8

8,056

1

33.0

26.3

9.0

43.2

  Female

4,510

1,136

25.2

3,374

3

43.0

33.8

13.0

50.9

Age

  0-14

171

41

24.0

130

3

28.0

26.0

8.5

44.1

  15-44

7,114

1,573

22.1

5,541

1

28.0

23.6

7.0

41.1

  45-64

5,029

1,247

24.8

3,782

2

35.0

28.5

9.5

46.4

  > 64

2,754

786

28.5

1,968

5

58.3

42.7

25.0

53.3

  Unknown

16

7

43.8

9

2

23.0

12.6

8.0

13.3