<unk>  is the time interval between the onset of symptoms and confirmed diagnosis of a disease. For a variety of reasons, including the mitigation of disease severity and financial expense, it is desirable for this<unk>  to be minimized. The importance of reducing<unk>  varies between diseases. An example of a high-stakes<unk>  is in ischemic stroke, in which the timeframe for delivery of potentially life-saving thrombolytic drugs is limited to the first few hours of the stroke.
Diagnostic delay
Therapeutic inertia
Overdiagnosis
Unwarranted variation
Nursing shortage
Pandemic fatigue
False memory
Vaccine hesitancy