Comparing patient care seeking pathways in three models of hospital and TB programme collaboration in China

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 General information of patients participated in the survey under the three models

	The dispensary model	The specialist model	The integrated model
Patients survey	100	90	103
Average age $\bar{x}$ (95%CI)	53 (49.6-56.1)^a	46 (41.8-49.8)	42 (38.8-45.1)
Male, N (%)	62 (62)	62 (69)	65 (63)
Married, N (%)	79 (79)	58 (64)	72 (70)
Farmer, N (%)	67 (67)	51 (57)	24 (23)^b
With medical insurance, N (%)	94 (94)	82 (91)	77 (75)
Per capita annual income (RMB) $\bar{x}$ (95%CI)	5,146 (3481-6811)	4,226 (2930-5523)	11,197 (8516-13878)^c

1 USD = 6.8 RMB.
^a Kruskal-Wallis H test showed that significant difference was found among three models (χ² = 36.448, P<0.001). The average age of patients in the dispensary model was significantly higher than that in the specialist model (P = 0.003) and the integrated model (P<0.001).
^b Significant lower than the dispensary model (χ² = 39.176, P<0.001) and the specialist model (χ² = 22.506, P<0.001).
^c Kruskal-Wallis H test showed that significant difference was found among three models (χ² = 21.056, P<0.001). Per capita income of patients in the integrated model was significantly higher than that in the dispensary model (P<0.001) and the specialist model (P<0.001).

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