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Additional file 2: Figure S1. Kaplan Meir plots (direct adjusted) for health system delay by risk factor

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Additional file 1: Table S1. Drug lists associated with chronic respiratory medicine

Study areas, population densities, and distributions of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) cases and hospitals in Kaohsiung, 2011–2013.

<p>Purple points indicate that patients with OHCA were transported to the closest emergency hospital while green points represent bypassing it.</p

Additional file 3: Table S2 of Health system delay among patients with tuberculosis in Taiwan: 2003–2010

Medicines associated with respiratory-related visits. (PDF 86 kb

Flow chart of the study design.

<p>Abbreviations: CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation; AED: automated external defibrillator; LMA: laryngeal mask airway.</p

Interpolation of the interval from the call to hospital admission by using the Kriging method.

<p>Areas marked with red indicate a prolonged interval of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) case from the call to hospital admission, while areas marked with green show a short interval (<30 min). Uncolored areas are locations without sufficient interpolation information (sparse OHCA event points).</p

Additional file 1: Figure S1 of Health system delay among patients with tuberculosis in Taiwan: 2003–2010

The overall procedure of the study. (PDF 281 kb

Additional file 4: Table S3 of Health system delay among patients with tuberculosis in Taiwan: 2003–2010

Procedures associated with respiratory-related visits. (PDF 161 kb

Additional file 2: Table S1 of Health system delay among patients with tuberculosis in Taiwan: 2003–2010

ICD-9-CM codes associated with respiratory-related visits. (PDF 191 kb

Additional file 5: Figure S2 of Health system delay among patients with tuberculosis in Taiwan: 2003–2010

Measurement of health system delay (HSD). We assumed that respiratory-related visits were of the same respiratory episode if the interval between two respiratory-related visits was ≦60 days and different episodes if >60 days when examining HSD. For example, Visit 3 was considered belonging to the same episode and included in our study because the interval between Visit 3 and Visit 4 was 35 days (≦60). Visit 2 was identified as another respiratory episode and excluded because the interval between Visit 2 and Visit 3 was 66 days (>60). AB ¯ $$\overline{AB}$$ indicates the Euclidean distance between Visit 3 and the visit where TB treatment was initialized (Visit 5). (PDF 311 kb