A patient journey is the history of symptoms, medical consultations, misdiagnoses, etc. that eventually lead to a correct diagnosis and treatment. It is a special example of a user journey, but one that often spans multiple organisations and very long timescales.
Used in Chap. 13: page 158
Also used in hcistats2e: Chap. 10: page 121
Image of patient journey for a rare disease from Case Study: Generating data for Rare Diseases, box in Chapter 10.