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These occurrences resulted in a delay of one month in completing the survey.
A delay of one month between stool sample collection and reference standard is considered to be an appropriate time period.
It is longer than those reported in the Philippines and in China (median delay of one month in both cases[ 15, 23]), but much shorter than found in studies in high-incidence settings, where the median delay ranged from 80 to 120 days[ 7, 11- 13, 24].
The most plausible predictions were those that showed a delay in departure equivalent to the observed delay of one month.
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Therefore, by taking a previous study done on diagnostic delay in Ethiopia, which showed 58% proportion of delay of more than one month [ 9], and a 95% confidence interval and a margin error of 5%, the sample size was calculated to be 373.
We therefore scored studies with a delay of less than one month as "yes" and those with a delay of more than one month as "no".
Finally, we considered treatment delay, which was defined as a delay of longer than one month between diagnosis and the first treatment.
Ideally faecal sampling was done shortly before endoscopy, but a delay of up to one month was not considered problematic.
A delay of up to one month was not considered problematic as it is unlikely that mucosal inflammation spontaneously disappears within this period.
Amongst those who were smear positive, 24 (86%) commenced treatment, 3 died prior to commencing treatment, and 1 delayed treatment beyond one month of diagnosis.
(The premiere has been pushed back a further three times, to 15 March, meaning a total delay of one year).
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