Distance between home and diagnostic hospital
Figure 4A details TDI Diagnostic intervals by distance between home and
hospital. There is a weak correlation between distance and TDI. Patients
who were less than 20 kilometres (km) away from the hospital had a
significantly shorter TDI of 3.0 weeks as compared to patients who were
100-500 km away from the hospital with a TDI of 4.5 weeks. Patients who
were 20-100km away from the hospital were diagnosed had the shortest
median PI of 0.3 weeks as compared to patients who were <20kms
who had the longest median PI of 1.0 week. The median SI was longest in
distances 100 – 500km (2.0 weeks), followed by 20-100 and 500+km which
had a median SI of 0.9 weeks each. Patients less than 20km away had the
shortest SI of 0.1 weeks.