Table 1.

PICOS question and inclusion/exclusion criteria

	Inclusion	Exclusion
Patient	Any patient aged ≥18 years Diagnosed with NSCLC Investigations and treatment performed in an elective secondary or tertiary care setting	NSCLC not examined in isolation from other cancer diagnoses Non-standard or emergency care pathways included Time intervals not measurable or not relevant to secondary/tertiary care
Intervention	Any with the intention of reducing part or all of time intervals from primary care referral to treatment	NA
Control	Usual care	NA
Outcome	Lung cancer-specific survival DFS OS Disease progression (eg, upstaging, change in proposed treatment)	Outcomes not directly correlated to timeliness
Studies	Any interventional or observational study Published January 2012–present	Not available in English language Abstract only No original data reported

DFS, disease-free survival; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; OS, overall survival.