Table 1.

Association between waiting times and survival

Time intervals	Number of articles	Association	References
Symptoms to treatment	2	No association between delay and prognosis	[21, 22]
	3	Longer waiting times improve the results forecast	[10, 23, 24]
Symptoms to first specialist visit	2	No association between delay and prognosis	[23, 25]
Symptoms at first medical visit	1	Shorter waiting times improve the results forecast	[26]
	2	No association between delay and prognosis	[21, 22]
	1	Longer waiting times improve the results forecast	[12]
Symptoms to diagnosis	1	Longer waiting times improve the results forecast	[21]
	2	No association between delay and prognosis	[11, 27]
First medical visit to diagnosis	1	Longer waiting times improve the results forecast	[13]
	1	Shorter waiting times improve the results forecast	[12]
First specialist visit to diagnosis	3	No association between delay and prognosis	[12, 25, 28]
Diagnosis to treatment	3	No association between delay and prognosis	[11, 28, 29]
	9	Longer waiting times improve the results forecast	[14, 18, 21–23, 25, 26, 30, 31]
	9	Shorter waiting times improve the results forecast	[15, 17, 19, 32–37]