delay in diagnosis
Delay in Diagnosis of Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
... The delay in diagnosis of SCFE (in weeks) was nonparametri- cally distributed (Fig 1) (skewness: ...in delay in diagnosis for continuous covariates was deter- mined by using Spearman’s rho, ...
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Cancer related maternal mortality and delay in diagnosis and treatment: a case series on 26 cases
... of delay. In 65% of patients (n = 17) delay was found to be present, 50% (n = 13) or all patients were found to have delay in diagnosis and 27% (n = 7) in starting ...of delay. ...
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Delay in diagnosis of muscle disorders depends on the subspecialty of the initially consulted physician
... Our mechanistic understanding of muscular dystrophies and inherited myopathies has improved remarkably dur- ing the last decade [1]. This progress leads to a much higher level of diagnostic accuracy and to the ...
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The Measurement of Delay in Diagnosis and Treatment among Moroccan Women with Cervical Cancer
... Commonly, delay is found further categorized into different component delays such as patient delay, health care provider delay, referral delay and system delay ...Thus, delay in ...
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Delay in diagnosis of tuberculosis in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
... TB is commonly associated with coughing, fever and heamoptysis. These symptoms are non-specific and are common in other chest diseases which provide a big challenge for efficacy of any health system [20]. It has been ...
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Delay in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in low-and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-analysis
... in diagnosis of PTB continued to be as bad as it was a decade ago ...total delay in diagnosis was 30 days in this review [30, 32] which has been indicated as a turning point at which a significant ...
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Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Delay in Diagnosis
... Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma A Delay in Diagnosis ORIGINAL ARTICLE Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma A Delay in Diagnosis U Prasad, FRCSE*, K C Pua, M S (ORL)**, *Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medi[.] ...
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Factors Associated With Delay in Diagnosis of Childhood Amblyopia
... Phy- sicians of the children with early diagnoses more often reported compliance with both the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for vision screening in infancy and referral for [r] ...
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Disseminated North American Blastomycosis in an Adolescent Male: A Delay in Diagnosis
... A diagnosis of dis- seminated North American blastomycosis was made, which was confirmed by the eventual positive identification of B dermatitidis on fungal cultures of skin and bronchial ...
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Delay in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a survey in the Lazio region, Italy
... before diagnosis; this happened more frequently among cases born in ...before diagnosis, the general practitioner was seen by around 45% of cases with a slightly higher percentage for patients born in ...
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Predictive Factors for Diagnosis and Treatment Delay in Iranian Women with Breast Cancer
... Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in fe- males (1) and a concerning public health problem (2). In the United States (US), it is responsible for one out of every three diagnosed malignancies in females (3). Its ...
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Clinical characteristics and visual outcomes in infectious scleritis: a review
... Abstract: Infection is a very important but rare cause of scleritis, occurring in about 5%–10% of all patients presenting with scleral inflammation. However, due to the similarity of its presentation, infectious ...
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Time delays in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review of literature
... to diagnosis identified by this review confirm these ...and delay has stressed that time delays to diagnosis are the most important obstacles to the control of the TB epidemic ...the delay and ...
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Delayed Presentation of Patients with Gynaecological Malignancies in Kano, North Western Nigeria
... The diagnosis and management of gynaecological cancers are still challenging in low- and middle- income ...malignancies delay at any point increases mor- bidity and ...may delay presentation, ...
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Delay in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in Uzbekistan: a cross sectional study
... a delay in diagnosis that might have been due to failure to comply with recom- mended diagnostic ...Prolonged delay in diagnosis ranging from 1 to 12 months was seen in 8% of patients first ...
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Sigmoid volvulus in pregnancy and puerperium: a surgical and obstetric catastrophe. Report of a case and review of the world literature
... The diagnosis of sigmoid volvulus is suspected when a pregnant female presents with a clinical triad of abdom- inal pain, distention, and absolute ...mean delay between the onset of symptoms to presentation ...
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Catastrophic Presentation of Infant Botulism May Obscure or Delay Diagnosis
... a delay in diagnosis while other etiologies are sought and presumptively ...that diagnosis was delayed because of atypical and catastrophic ...
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Estimation of delay to diagnosis and incidence in HIV using indirect evidence of infection dates
... at diagnosis is the most commonly used biomarker to assess the likely delay from infection to diagnosis ...greater delay in ...the delay from infection to diagnosis of ...
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Geographical Distribution of Visceral Leishmaniasis Among Children in Dhamar Governorate, Yemen
... [14] El Sawaf BM, Kassem HA, Mogalli NM, El Hossary SS, Ramadan NF. Current knowledge of sand fly fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) ofnorthwestern Yemen and how it relates to leishmaniasis transmission. Acta Tropica 2016; ...
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Socioeconomic patient characteristics predict delay in cancer diagnosis: a Danish cohort study
... with delay in seeking help ...of delay that allow us to hypothesize the exist- ence of social inequalities in the distribution of delay, but, in general, only few socioeconomic predictors of ...
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