Bonfill, XavierMartínez Zapata, María JoséVernooij, Robin W. M.Sánchez, María JoséMorales Suárez-Varela, Maríade la Cruz, JavierEmparanza, José IgnacioFerrer Forés, Maria MontserratPijoán, José IgnacioPalou, JoanSchmidt, Stefanie, 1979-Madrid, EvaAbraira, VíctorZamora, JavierEMPARO-CU Study Group2018-10-182018-10-182017Bonfill X, Martinez-Zapata MJ, Vernooij RWM, Sánchez MJ, Suárez-Varela MM, De la Cruz J. et al. Clinical interval and diagnostic characteristics in a cohort of bladder cancer patients in Spain: a multicenter observational study. BMC Res Notes. 2017 Dec 7;10(1):708. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-017-3024-81756-0500http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35621OBJECTIVE: We performed a cohort study in seven hospitals in Spain to determine the clinical characteristics of incident patients with bladder cancer, the diagnostic process, and the conditions that might affect health care interval times. RESULTS: 314 patients with bladder cancer were included, 70.3 (Standard Deviation [SD] 11.2) years old and 85.0% male. Clinical stage was T1 in 45.9% of patients. The median interval time between first consultation and diagnosis was of 104.0 days (Inter quartile range [IQR]:112.0; range from 0 to 986), being shorter for those patients who attended a hospital for their first consultation. The median interval time between diagnosis and first treatment was of 0.0 days (IQR: 0.0; range from 0 to 366), being longer when the patient had a pathologic tumor stage ≥ T2aapplication/pdfengCopyright © The Author(s) 2017. Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.Bufeta -- Càncerinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3024-8Diagnostic techniques and proceduresNeoplasm stagingObservational studyTime factorsUrinary bladder neoplasminfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess