Fig 1.
Synthetic model underlying interview guide and analysis.
Table 1.
Psychophysiological comparison theory.
Table 2.
Population characteristics.
Table 3.
Prodromal symptoms or clinical features reported by patients, categorised as important alone or in combination by Atia et al. [38] and patient-estimated delay by category in months (m).
Table 4.
Cases in which patient delay formed over 50% of the total delay period.
Table 5.
Reasons for difficulty in recognising IBD as source of symptoms.
Table 6.
Treatments recommended/received before diagnosis.
Table 7.
Tests and investigations reported declined.
Table 8.
Cases in which primary care delay formed the majority of total delay.
Table 9.
Case studies of long specialist triage.