treatment delays
Waiting for medicine
Treatment delays are gaps between when medical care is needed and when it's actually received.
The term appears in healthcare contexts discussing obstacles to timely intervention: Treatment delays in cancer diagnosis significantly affect survival rates.
Delays may occur at multiple points—waiting for appointments, diagnostic results, insurance approval, or specialist referrals.
The treatment delay cost him his leg.
- waitingRemaining in expectation
- backlogAccumulated unfinished work
- queueOrdered waiting line
- postponementDelaying to later
- lagPeriod of falling behind
bottleneck · hospital bed · bureaucracy · red tape · referral · appointment · scheduling · urgent · time sensitive · life or death · frustration · anxiety · second opinion · worsening · progression · insurance · prior authorization · authorization