A Methodological Review of Patient Healthcare-Seeking Journeys from Symptom Onset to Receipt of Care
Charity Oga-Omenka,
Angelina Sassi,
Nathaly Aguilera Vasquez
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundFor many diseases, early diagnosis and treatment are more cost-effective, reduce community spread of infectious diseases, and result in better patient outcomes. However, healthcare-seeking and diagnoses for several diseases are unnecessarily delayed. For example, in 2022, 3 million and 5.6 million people living with TB and HIV respectively were undiagnosed. Many patients never access appropriate testing, remain undiagnosed after testing or drop out shortly after treatment initiation. This underscores… Show more
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