Quality improvement project helps identify IBD diagnosis delays

Time to patient presentation was the largest component of time to diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease, according to research published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.James R. Goodhand, of Exeter IBD and Pharmacogenetics Research Group in the United Kingdom, and colleagues wrote that a timely diagnosis in IBD is critical for management of the disease.“Contemporary studies of the time to diagnosis of IBD from the UK, where healthcare is free at the point-of-access and general practitioners act as gatekeepers to secondary care services, are lacking,” they wrote. “MostRead More