There was some evidence to suggest that the setting of first presentation impacts on delay, with those who presented first to hospital doing so after shorter symptom duration (Wile et al, 1993; Mariscal et al, 2001) (Table 2).
Presentation notes on the back of first presentation.
The agreement was moderate between GP- and patient-reported dates of first presentation (CCC = 0.924).
We found moderate agreement on reported date of first presentation of symptoms to the GP, meaning that the disagreement in reported patient interval is related to date of first symptom rather than date of first presentation to the GP.
Very little is known about the association of history of allergy with timing of first presentation in adenotonsillitis patients.
The objective of this study was to analyse the agreement between patient-reported and GP-reported patient intervals and date of first presentation of cancer-related symptom(s) to the GP.
One of the main challenges is to be able to accurately assess a patient's prognosis at the time of first presentation to allow selection of the most appropriate treatment and to provide accurate information to the patient.
There was full agreement between GP- and patient-reported date of first presentation in 37.5% of the cancer cases and within one week in 52.0% of all the cancer cases.
He was training to become a sumo wrestler at the time of first presentation.
The date of first presentation with uveitis preceded the diagnosis of TB-related eye disease in the majority, with four patients starting ATT at the same time as their uveitis was diagnosed.
Serological assessments were made at the time of first presentation with gametocytes and 4 and 12 weeks after enrolment, corresponding to 2 4 and 10 12 weeks after first presentation with gametocytes.
