TY - JOUR AU - Hansen, Rikke Pilegaard AU - Olesen, Frede AU - Sørensen, Henrik Toft AU - Sokolowski, Ineta AU - Søndergaard, Jens PY - 2008 DA - 2008/02/28 TI - Socioeconomic patient characteristics predict delay in cancer diagnosis: a Danish cohort study JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 49 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - Delay in cancer diagnosis may be important for cancer prognosis. Large individual variations in the duration of delay have been observed. This study examines whether patients' socioeconomic characteristics are predictors of long patient-, doctor- and system-related delay in cancer diagnosis. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-49 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-8-49 ID - Hansen2008 ER -