ABSTRACT

Literature reviews generally analyse and synthesis the evidence (or lack thereof) in a particular topic area and they are an increasingly popular form of scholarly activity. The scoping review is a popular literature review approach that has been adopted across the social and health sciences over the last fifteen years. With this upsurge in use, differences of opinion about how to analyse and report scoping reviews has also grown. Drawing on work carrying out a scoping review on oral health and child maltreatment, we put forward a structured approach to analysis and reporting of such reviews: the PAGER (Patterns, Advances, Gaps, Evidence for practice and Research recommendations) framework. In this article, we reflect on the strengths and limitations of the framework, drawing on examples, laying out the methodological processes, and making suggestions as to how it might improve reporting. The article makes a contribution to efforts that seek to improve the reporting and utility of scoping reviews in health and social research.

摘要

文献综述通常分析和综合特定主题领域的证据（或缺乏证据），它们是一种越来越流行的学术活动形式。范围审查是一种流行的文献审查方法，在过去十五年中已在社会和健康科学领域采用。随着使用的激增，关于如何分析和报告范围审查的意见分歧也越来越大。根据对口腔健康和虐待儿童进行范围审查的工作，我们提出了一种结构化的方法来分析和报告此类审查：PAGER（模式、进展、差距、实践证据和研究建议）框架。在本文中，我们反思了框架的优势和局限性，借鉴示例，布置了方法流程，并就如何改进报告提出建议。本文为寻求改善健康和社会研究中范围审查的报告和实用性的努力做出了贡献。