Delaying diagnostic CT until after PET/CT may also allow more specific functional information to be obtained.
The most common reasons for delay included unavailability of theatre time, a requirement for medical optimisation and delayed diagnostic clarification.
They also suggested that a delayed diagnostic test should be carried out if the initial diagnostic test is negative, as recommended by the International Consensus [ 11].
Only 19 (59.3%) of 32 patients survived the acute intestinal ischemia (in hospital mortality was 40.6%), delayed diagnostic and operation caused higher mortality.
This would adversely affect the management of these patients by delaying diagnostic thyroid scintigraphy and radioiodine ablation in patients with DTCs for 2 6 months.
Men who delay diagnostic resolution beyond a 3-month period may merit outreach via patient navigation.
Furthermore, CI may delay diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, impede informed consent, and result in difficulty in adherence to medical care.
Data collected included demographic data, clinical presentation, duration of symptoms and reasons for presentation delay, diagnostic investigations, operative and histology findings, length of hospital stay, and mortality.
Health system delay was derived by adding provider delay, diagnostic delay and treatment initiation delay.
Health system delay was derived by adding provider delay, diagnostic delay and treatment initiation delay (Fig. 1).
