Health-seeking behaviour and treatment delay in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Switzerland: some slip through the net.

CONCLUSIONS: No predictor of patient delay was found among the variables collected. For one fourth of the patients, the health system delay was longer than 7 weeks. General practitioners are commonly approached first, and they have to consider TB, also for patients not considered at high-risk for TB.
PMID: 30232794 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - August 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Auer C, Kiefer S, Zuske M, Schindler C, Wyss K, Blum J, Bosch-Capblanch X, Widmer U, Sauthier S, Janssens JP, Bossard K, Chatonnet C, Mazza-Stalder J, Začek B, Zellweger JP, Altpeter E, Mäusezahl M Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research