How long people wait between first noticing something wrong and being diagnosed is barely measured. Recording it routinely and publishing it by hospital would expose where the system loses time.
The diagnostic interval is the most patient-relevant delay in cancer care and the least measured. Adding first-presentation date and referral dates to cancer registry minimum datasets, and publishing intervals by route and hospital, would let systems see whether delays occur before referral (primary care), in diagnostics, or in specialist queues. Denmark and England collect parts of this; almost no one else does.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, The hardest cancers are found late.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, The hardest cancers are found late.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Mortality due to cancer treatment delay: systematic review and meta-analysis, Fragmented care and guideline gaps.
Shares Fragmented care and guideline gaps, The hardest cancers are found late.