Patient Delay in Hospital Visiting and the Weekend Effect of Surveillance Report on Hand-Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Epidemic Parotitis in Hanzhong City, China

Table 1

Background information of patients with hand-foot-and-mouth disease or epidemic parotitis.

Items	Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (n (%))	Epidemic parotitis (n (%))
Year
2014	5067 (34.2)	774 (19.3)
2015	3183 (21.5)	548 (13.7)
2016	3650 (24.6)	1020 (25.7)
2017	2914 (19.7)	1671 (41.6)
Gender
Male	8696 (58.7)	2266 (56.5)
Female	6118 (41.3)	1747 (43.5)
Classification of disease
Clinically diagnosed cases	14,311 (96.6)	3981 (99.2)
Confirmed cases	503 (3.4)	32 (0.8)
Occupation
Children in childcare	4420 (29.8)	664 (16.5)
Children not in childcare	9706 (65.5)	255 (6.4)
Students	632 (4.3)	2561 (63.8)
Peasants	29 (0.2)	407 (10.1)
Others	27 (0.2)	126 (3.1)
Age
<1 year	1592 (10.7)	8 (0.2)
1–4 years	11,457 (77.3)	512 (12.8)
5–10 years	1585 (10.7)	2115 (52.7)
>10 years	180 (1.2)	1378 (34.3)