Delays in Diagnosis and Treatment in Patients Underwent Endobronchial Ultrasound-Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA)

Table 3

Risk factors associated with delay for five time periods in patients who underwent EBUS-TBNA.

Parameters	Patient delay		Referral delay		Diagnosis delay		Delay in treatment start		Overall delay
	n (%)	P	n (%)	p	n (%)	p	n (%)	p	n (%)	p
Gender		0.681		0.478		0.914		0.648		0.229
Male	46 (59)		26 (33.3)		66 (84.6)		29 (37.2)		54 (69.2)
Female	35 (62.5)		22 (39.3)		47 (83.9)		23 (41.1)		44 (78.6)
Age		0.178		0.006		0.394		0.078		0.042
˂50 years	8 (40)		4 (20)		16 (80)		10 (50)		13 (65)
50–60 years	17 (59)		6 (21)		25 (86)		11(38)		17 (59)
60–70 years	35 (64)		29 (53)		44 (80)		15 (27)		41 (74)
>70 years	21 (70)		9 (30)		28 (93)		16 (53)		27 (90)
Charlson CI		0.462		0.151		0.795		0.161		0.371
˂3 points	21 (52.5)		10 (25)		34 (85)		16 (40)		26 (65)
3–6 points	40 (64.5)		23 (37.1)		51 (82.3)		28 (45.2)		48 (77.4)
6 points ˂	20 (67.5)		15 (46.9)		28 (87.5)		8 (25)		24 (75)
Smoking		0.301		0.844		0.846		0.794		0.624
Nonsmoker	35 (61.4)		22 (38.6)		48 (84.2)		24 (42.1)		44 (77.2)
Ex-smoker	26 (68.4)		13 (34.2)		33 (86.8)		14 (36.8)		26 (68.4)
Active smoker	20 (51.3)		13 (33.3)		32 (82.1)		14 (35.9)		28 (71.8)
Symptom		0.027		0.344		0.544		0.260		0.695
Asymptomatic	20 (80)		11 (44)		20 (80)		7 (28)		17 (68)
Symptomatic	61 (56)		37 (33.9)		93 (85.3)		45 (41.3)		81 (74.3)
Diagnosis		0.113		0.588		0.321		0.807		0.617
Malignant	31(54.4)		20 (35.1)		45 (78.9)		21 (36.8)		41 (71.9
Benign	27 (57.4)		15 (31.9)		42 (89.4)		20 (38)		33 (70.2)
Insufficient diagnosis	23 (76.7)		13 (43.3)		26 (86.7)		11 (36.7)		24 (80)
Additional procedures						0.981		0.062		0.439
None					81 (84.4)		42 (43.8)		72 (75)
Present					32 (84.2)		10 (26.3)		26 (68.4)