Diagnostic Delay Is Associated with a Greater Risk of Early Surgery in a French Cohort of Crohn’s Disease Patients

To investigate whether a diagnostic delay is associated with a poor outcome in Crohn’s disease (CD). Medical and socioeconomic characteristics as well as medications and need for surgery of consecutive CD adults patients followed in three referral centers were prospectively recorded using an electronic database (Focus_MICI®). A long diagnostic delay was defined by the upper quartile. We compared patients with long diagnostic delay to those with...