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Fig. 3 | Respiratory Research

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From: Duration and determinants of delayed tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in high-burden countries: a mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis

Fig. 3

Duration of patient delay by regions reported in high tuberculosis burden countries. Countries were grouped by WHO regions (AFR African region, AMR Region of the Americas, SEAR South-East Asia region, WPR Western Pacific region). Countries were also categorized as (i) LIC (low-income countries), (ii) LMIC (low-middle income countries), or (ii) UMIC (upper-middle income countries) as designated by the World Bank in 2019. Studies from LIC and LMIC were in bold. Patient delay (in blue) was pooled by the countries’ economic status using Weighted Medians of Medians methods by McGrath (2019). The estimates were weighted by sample sizes of the studies. Pooled results for LIC and LMIC were not presented separately due to insufficient studies from LIC. Duration of delay in days were presented in the log scale

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