Table 2.

Time to treatment in the German pilot projects and in the first 6 months of nationwide SMA-screening

	Pilot-project	Nationwide SMA-NBS
Number of patients with suspected SMA	67	50
Confirmed patients	67	46
Median time to information of physicians about suspicion of SMA (days)	6 (3–15)	7 (4–15)
Median time to information of parents (days of life)	7 (6–45)	8 (4–15)
Median time to genetic confirmation of diagnosis (days of life)	13 (9–14)	13 (9–19)
Median time to first appointment at neuromuscular center (days of life)	8 (6–54)	10 (5–46)
Median Time to start of treatment (2/3 copies) (days of life)	19 (7–728)	26.5 (13–66)