| Cases |
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| Crohn’s Disease |
| P18 |
P18’s delay (two years in general triage, deprivation decile 2) can be partially attributed to atypical presentation, in the form of negative test results. |
| P19 |
Non-specific presentations and relative disease prevalence (13 months in general triage, deprivation decile 6) misdiagnosed with IBS. |
| Ulcerative colitis |
| P14 |
47-year-old person with UC, ten or more years in general triage, deprivation Decile 6) is an older patient who perceived their GP as out-of-touch and having trivialised their symptoms. Their experience could also be considered an example of misdiagnosis due to a non-specific presentation. “It was our local village GP, I think he’d come from the dark ages. . . some elderly man. . . I think he got his medical training in the 1940s and hadn’t really kept himself particularly up to date with modern medicine. . . I kept being diagnosed with, like, you know, ‘stomach aches’” (P14)
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| P16 |
Both non-specific presentations and relative disease prevalence may have influenced the misdiagnosis of P16 (five years in general triage—over 50% of total diagnostic delay, deprivation decile 2), |
| P17 |
Non-specific presentations and relative disease prevalence (five years in general triage, deprivation decile 1) misdiagnosis with IBS, |
| IBD unclassified |
| P15 |
Two years in general triage, deprivation Decile 5) where multiple alternative hypotheses (thyroid issues, haemorrhoids, diverticulitis) were pursued before IBD was picked up during routine bowel cancer screening.
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