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 2

Comparisons of durations of delay in patient hospital visiting for hand-foot-and-mouth disease across different factors.

Factors	Durations of delay in patient hospital visiting (days)				Statistics	values
	0-1	2-3	4–7	>7
Year					90.532	<0.001
2014	3077 (60.7)	1569 (31.0)	361 (7.1)	60 (1.2)
2015	1679 (52.7)	1210 (38.0)	274 (8.6)	20 (0.6)
2016	2022 (55.4)	1242 (34.0)	323 (8.8)	63 (1.7)
2017	1649 (56.6)	1032 (35.4)	188 (6.5)	45 (1.5)
Gender					3.458	0.326
Male	4968 (57.1)	2974 (34.2)	643 (7.4)	111 (1.3)
Female	3459 (56.5)	2079 (34.0)	503 (8.2)	77 (1.3)
Classification of disease					300.086	<0.001
Clinically diagnosed cases	8157 (57.0)	4897 (34.2)	1118 (7.8)	139 (1.0)
Confirmed cases	270 (53.7)	156 (31.0)	28 (5.6)	49 (9.7)
Occupation					133.591	<0.001
Children in childcare	2799 (63.3)	1335 (30.2)	252 (5.7)	34 (0.8)
Children not in childcare	5269 (54.3)	3459 (35.6)	831 (8.6)	147 (1.5)
Students	340 (53.8)	231 (36.6)	54 (8.5)	7 (1.1)
Peasants and others	19 (33.9)	28 (50.0)	9 (16.1)	0 (0.0)
Age					45.480	<0.001
<1 year	857 (53.8)	586 (36.8)	126 (7.9)	23 (1.4)
1–4 years	6533 (57.0)	3890 (34.0)	883 (7.7)	151 (1.3)
5–10 years	967 (61.0)	488 (30.8)	117 (7.4)	13 (0.8)
>10 years	70 (38.9)	89 (49.4)	20 (11.1)	1 (0.6)
Epidemic season					56.490	<0.001
Yes	6821 (58.3)	3913 (33.4)	842 (7.2)	132 (1.1)
No	1606 (51.7)	1140 (36.7)	304 (9.8)	56 (1.8)