The relationship between socio-demographic characteristics of patients and diagnostic delay in acute pulmonary thromboembolism

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Table I. Univariate logistic regression analysis of clinical and socio-demographical factors for patient delay in pulmonary thromboembolism.

	Delayed presentation (after 24th hour)
Variable	OR	95.0% CI	P
Age > 65 y	1.322	0.693–2.521	0.396
Gender	1.192	0.617–2.395	0.601
Education status (literacy)	2.036	1.043–3.974	0.037^a
Occupation	0.903	0.627–1.302	0.585
Residence (in urban)	1.027	0.536–1.965	0.937
Current smoking	3.456	1.266–9.434	0.015^a
Risk factor (surgery or trauma)	0.056	0.260–1.188	0.129
Symptoms and signs
Dyspnea	1.099	0.532–2.273	0.798
Pain	0.918	0.483–1.744	0.795
Hemoptysis	1.593	0.564–4.494	0.379
Syncope	0.423	0.159–1.128	0.086
Hypotension	0.569	0.221–1.466	0.243
Deep vein thrombosis signs	1.368	0.470–3.986	0.566

^a Statistically significant.

Table II. Univariate logistic regression analysis of factors predicting delayed diagnosis (total delay) of pulmonary thromboembolism.

	Delayed diagnosis (after 24th hour)
Variable	OR	95.0% CI	P
Age > 65 y	1.015	0.988–1.042	0.286
Gender	0.614	0.261–1.442	0.262
Education status (literacy)	2.805	1.123–7.008	0.027
Occupation	0.442	0.183–1.068	0.070
Residence (in urban)	0.677	0.307–1.491	0.333
Current smoking	1.722	0.465–6.378	0.416
Risk factor (surgery or trauma)	0.259	0.113–0.592	0.001
Symptoms and signs
Dyspnea	1.140	0.477–2.726	0.767
Pain	1.358	0.617–2.992	0.447
Syncope	0.286	0.113–0.723	0.008^a
Hypotension	0.267	0.105–0.682	0.006^a
Deep vein thrombosis signs	1.683	0.359–7.880	0.509
Previous visits to a health institution	11.592	3.816–35.218	< 0.001^a

^a Statistically significant.