Time to Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease by Patient Race

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Dec 1;6(12):e2347184. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.47184.

Authors

Samuel J Starke¹, Alison W Rebman², John Miller², Ting Yang², John N Aucott²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
² Lyme Disease Research Center, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study compares stages at which Lyme disease was diagnosed by race in a specialty clinic in the US.

MeSH terms

Humans
Lyme Disease* / diagnosis
Lyme Disease* / drug therapy
Racial Groups*
Time-to-Treatment*