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. 2023 Jun 13;73(734):e702–e709. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2023.0044

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Improving timeliness of diagnosis is imperative across disease types. This review identified that for a range of non-neoplastic conditions healthcare use starts to increase in the time before diagnosis. For some conditions, this increase may first start to occur many years before diagnosis. Further research is needed to produce accurate estimates of how much earlier diagnosis may be possible.