FIGURE 2.

Factors influencing treatment decision‐making in cancer in low‐ and middle‐income countries. A previously published conceptual model of variables that impact decision‐making in oncology was used as a template to elicit categories of decision‐making factors. In this model, factors were categorized by the decision‐maker, decision, and context. This model was limited by its development in high‐income country settings. Articles identified in this review were deductively and inductively reviewed to identify previously described and new criteria or factors that did not fit the existing model. These new factors, highlighted in blue, were aggregated, and organized thematically.