Scoping reviews are increasingly used in health professions education to synthesize
research and scholarship, and to report on the depth and breadth of the literature on a given …

The introduction should be comprehensive and cover all the main elements of the topic
under review. Due to scoping reviews being essentially exploratory, it is not expected that …

Objectives Scoping reviews are being increasingly used by researchers. The objective of
this article was to outline some challenges and potential solutions to improve the conduct …

Objective: This article compares and contrasts scoping literature reviews with other
established methods for understanding and interpreting extant research literature. Methods …

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Healthcare decision-making is complex and should involve
healthcare professionals, patients and the best level of evidence. The speed of information …

Background Scoping studies (or reviews) are a method used to comprehensively map
evidence across a range of study designs in an area, with the aim of informing future …

Abstract Background and Objectives Different methods to examine research gaps have
been described, but there are still no standard methods for identifying, prioritizing, or …

Knowledge translation is a central focus of the health research community, which includes
strategies to synthesize published research to support uptake within health care practice …

Objectives The scoping review has become increasingly popular as a form of knowledge
synthesis. However, a lack of consensus on scoping review terminology, definition …

A scoping review aims to systematically explore and map the research available from a wide
range of sources. The objective of this study was to produce a scoping review checklist to …