YoryosLyratzopoulos

1/12 With colleagues in 14 jurisdictions in 6 countries we have just published a study on the predictors and consequences of cancer diagnosis within 30 days after an emergency hospital admission (=emergency presentation) in @TheLancetOncol thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/… A🧵:

3/3  A third of EP patients were previously referred urgently; faster specialist assessment may have resulted in non-EP diagnosis in some. EP patients who were also emergency-referred had 9-fold higher mortality within a month post-diagnosis, compared to non-EP patients @CRUKHCPs

2/3 “Predictors and consequences of different pathways to emergency diagnosis of cancer in England: Evidence from linked national audit and cancer registration data" @RuthSwann, @GLyratzopoulos, @Gregrubin4, @EllissBrookes, Sean McPhail” @CancerEpid pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39167911/

1/3 With colleagues @RuthSwann, @GLyratzopoulos, @Gregrubin4, @EllissBrookes, Sean McPhail we have recently published a study aiming to understand pathways to diagnosis of cancer as an emergency presentation, and their consequences, a bit more pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39167911/

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