BACKGROUND There is no validated way of measuring the prevalence and duration of patient delay, and we do not know how people perceive and define the time intervals they are asked to report in patient delay studies. This lack of a validated measure hampers research in patient delay and is counterproductive to efforts directed at securing early diagnosis of cancer. DISCUSSION The main argument...

Non-national migrants have limited access to medical therapy. This study compares diagnostic delay and treatment outcomes of non-insured non-national migrants (NINNM) with insured Israeli citizens (IC) in the Tel Aviv tuberculosis (TB) clinic between 1998 and 2008. Patient delay was the time from symptoms onset to doctor's visit, while system delay was measured from doctor visit to anti-TB ther...

BACKGROUND Fundamental measures of control of tuberculosis are early detection and timely treatment of the affected. The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with patient-related and health system-related delays among patients with tuberculosis in the Republic of Montenegro. METHODS A cross-sectional study included 130 tuberculosis patients older than 15 years of age. The incl...

BACKGROUND To receive optimal treatment and care, it is essential that heart failure (HF) patients react adequately to worsening symptoms and contact a health care provider early. This specific "patient delay" is an important part of the total delay time. The purpose of this study was to assess patient delay and its associated variables in HF patients. METHODS AND RESULTS In this cross-sectio...

how to cite this article: fayyazi a, kheizrian l, kheradmand z, damadi s, khajeh a. evaluation of the young children with neurodevelopmental disability: a prospective study at hamadan university of medical sciences clinics. iran j child neurol. 2013 winter; 7 (1):29-33.   objective developmental impairment is a common problem in children health that occurs in approximately 5–10% of the childhoo...

Tuberculosis remains a serious global public health problem. Delays in diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis patients not only increases transmission of tuberculosis in the community but may also lead to more serious complications and higher mortality. The objective of this study was to assess factors associated with patient delay among new pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Anqing, China. Fr...

Background: Diagnosis of cancer at an early stage improves prognosis following treatment. Unfortunately a large proportion of oral and pharyngeal cancer patients are diagnosed at late stages which require radical treatment with considerable morbidity and mortality. Many researchers have examined different types of delay that could occur between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis. The objective...

BACKGROUND TB control is based on the rapid identification of cases and their effective treatment. However, many studies have shown that there are important delays in diagnosis and treatment of patients with TB. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of and identify risk factors associated with patient delay and health system delay among newly diagnosed patients with pulmonary T...

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) misdiagnosis has many broad implications for the patient and the neurologist. potentially curative treatments exist for certain als mimic syndromes, but delay in starting these therapies may have an unfavorable effect on outcome. hence, it is important to exclude similar conditions. in this review, we discuss some of the important mimics of als.

oro-antral communication and fistula can occur as a result of inadequate and improper treatment. inadvertent communication with the maxillary sinus can occur during certain surgical procedures in the maxillary posterior region. though, spontaneous healing may occur in defects which are smaller than 2 mm but larger communications require immediate attention and should be treated without delay, i...