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Area of Science:

  • Evidence-based medicine
  • Knowledge synthesis
  • Scoping reviews

Background:

  • Scoping reviews are essential for mapping literature in evidence-based medicine.
  • Conducting scoping reviews is resource-intensive and maintaining best practices can be challenging.
  • Existing guidance lacks detailed, stage-specific advice for optimizing the scoping review process.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide specific, actionable recommendations for optimizing the scoping review process.
  • To share practical advice based on experience with a challenging scoping review.
  • To aid research teams in conducting effective knowledge synthesis projects.

Main Methods:

  • Engaging librarian expertise throughout the review.
  • Implementing a truly systematic literature search strategy.
  • Facilitating effective communication and collaboration among team members.
  • Exploring and repurposing digital tools for review management.
  • Rigorously testing each stage of the scoping review process.

Main Results:

  • Five key recommendations are presented to improve scoping review efficiency.
  • The recommendations address critical stages from search to collaboration and tool utilization.
  • Detailed advice is provided to enhance the quality and manageability of knowledge synthesis.

Conclusions:

  • The presented recommendations offer practical guidance to optimize scoping review conduct.
  • Implementing these strategies can help overcome challenges in knowledge synthesis.
  • This work contributes detailed, stage-specific advice to the existing literature on scoping reviews.