Table 4.

Table of studies which reported time to treatment as a narrative theme

Author (year)	Outcome	Narrative theme	Type of SACT	Time to treatment
Ferreira et al. (2020) [36]	Time between diagnosis and commencement of treatment > 60 days	Time to treatment	SACT (treatment)	< 60 days 81.3%
Ozmen et al. (2015) [37]	Time to receipt of treatment defined as (i) patient delay time (PDT), (ii) system delay time (SDT) and (iii) total delay time = sum of PDT and SDT	Time to treatment	SACT (treatment)	Patient delay time (PDT) 4.8 weeks System delay time (SDT) 10.5 weeks Total delay time (TDT) 13.8 weeks
Recondo et al. (2019) [38]	Time elapsed between diagnosis and receipt of treatment with chemotherapy	Time to treatment	Chemotherapy	Public hospitals 76 days (64–86) < 0.0001 Private hospitals 60 days (52–65) < 0.0001
Vas Luiz et al. (2015) [31]	Time to trastuzumab initiation and utilisation of trastuzumab	Time to treatment	Immunotherapy	White patients 54 days (median), IQR 32–124 (unadjusted) Non-White patients 95 days, IQR 39–167 (unadjusted) < 0.05