Research Article
Delays in Diagnosis and Treatment in Patients Underwent Endobronchial Ultrasound-Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA)
Table 2
Durations of periods and amount of delays of the patients.
| | | Mean value ± standard deviation | Median value (Min–Max) | Delay presence (n (%)) |
| | Admission time (days) | 40.9 ± 28.7 | 30 (0–150) | 81 (60.4) | | Time for referral (days) | 19.1 ± 20.7 | 13.5 (1–120) | 48 (35.8) | | Time until the treatment start (days) | 32.1 ± 17.9 | 29 (3–106) | 113 (84.3) | | Initial evaluation time | 7.4 ± 12.6 | 0 (0–80) | | | Time until EBUS-TBNA | 5.0 ± 5.1 | 4 (0–26) | | | Time until pathological diagnosis | 19.8 ± 12.7 | 17 (3–80) | | | Time until the treatment start (days) | 15.5 ± 19.5 | 11 (0–110) | 52 (38.8) | | Overall time (days) | 103.3 ± 49.4 | 95.5 (13–288) | 98 (73.1) |
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