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How-to: scoping review? (2024)
Journal Article
POLLOCK, D., EVANS, C., JIA, R.M., ALEXANDER, L., PIEPER, D., BRANDÃO DE MORAES, E., PETERS, M.D.J., TRICCO, A.C., KHALI, H., GODFREY, C.M., SARAN, A., CAMPBELL, F. and MUNN, Z. 2024. How-to: scoping review? Journal of clinical epidemiology [online], 176, article number 111572. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111572

Scoping reviews are a type of evidence synthesis that aims to identify and map the breadth of evidence available on a particular topic, field, concept, or issue, within or across a defined context or contexts. Scoping reviews can contribute to clinic... Read More about How-to: scoping review?.

Guideline summary: assessment, diagnosis, care and support for people with dementia and their carers [Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network SIGN Guideline 168]. (2024)
Journal Article
BURTON, J.K., SOIZA, R.L. and QUINN, T.J, on behalf of the SIGN 168 Guideline Development Group. 2024. Guideline summary: assessment, diagnosis, care and support for people with dementia and their carers [Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network SIGN Guideline 168]. Age and ageing [online], 53(7), afae147. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae147

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) have recently published their guideline SIGN168 on 'Assessment, Diagnosis, Care, and Support for People with Dementia and their Carers'. The guideline makes evidence-based recommendations for bes... Read More about Guideline summary: assessment, diagnosis, care and support for people with dementia and their carers [Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network SIGN Guideline 168]..

Automation tools to support undertaking scoping reviews. (2024)
Journal Article
KHALIL, H., POLLOCK, D., MCINERNEY, P., EVANS, C., MORAES, E.B., GODFREY, C.M., ALEXANDER, L., TRICCO, A., PETERS, M.D.J., PIEPER, D., SARAN, A., AMEEN, D., TANERI, P.E. and MUNN, Z. 2024. Automation tools to support undertaking scoping reviews. Research synthesis methods [online], Early View. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1731

This paper describes several automation tools and software that can be considered during evidence synthesis projects and provides guidance for their integration in the conduct of scoping reviews. The guidance presented in this work is adapted from th... Read More about Automation tools to support undertaking scoping reviews..

Exploring the perceptions and experiences of community rehabilitation for long COVID from the perspectives of Scottish general practitioners' and people living with long COVID: a qualitative study. (2024)
Journal Article
COOPER, K., DUNCAN, E., HART-WINKS, E., COWIE, J., SHIM, J., STAGE, E., TOOMAN, T., ALEXANDER, L., LOVE, A., MORRIS, J., ORMEROD, J., PRESTON, J. and SWINTON, P.A. 2024. Exploring the perceptions and experiences of community rehabilitation for long COVID from the perspectives of Scottish general practitioners' and people living with long COVID: a qualitative study. BMJ open [online], 14(5), e082830. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082830

The objective of this study was to explore the experience of accessing Long COVID community rehabilitation from the perspectives of people with Long COVID and General Practitioners (GPs). The research took the form of a qualitative descriptive study,... Read More about Exploring the perceptions and experiences of community rehabilitation for long COVID from the perspectives of Scottish general practitioners' and people living with long COVID: a qualitative study..

Large scoping reviews: managing volume and potential chaos in a pool of evidence sources. (2024)
Journal Article
ALEXANDER, L., COOPER, K., PETERS, M.D.J., TRICCO, A.C., KHALIL, H., EVANS, C., MUNN, Z., PIEPER, D., GODFREY, C.M., MCINERNEY, P. and POLLOCK, D. 2024. Large scoping reviews: managing volume and potential chaos in a pool of evidence sources. Journal of clinical epidemiology [online], 170, article number 111343. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111343

Scoping reviews can identify a large number of evidence sources. This commentary describes and provides guidance on planning, conducting, and reporting large scoping reviews. This guidance is informed by experts in scoping review methodology, includi... Read More about Large scoping reviews: managing volume and potential chaos in a pool of evidence sources..

The role of scoping reviews in guideline development. (2024)
Journal Article
POLLOCK, D.K., KHALIL, H., EVANS, C. et al. 2024. The role of scoping reviews in guideline development. Journal of clinical epidemiology [online], 169, article number 111301. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111301

Systematic reviews have long been seen as critical in the development of trustworthy guidelines. However, as newer synthesis methodologies such as scoping reviews become more common, there is a need to discuss the potential role of these methodologie... Read More about The role of scoping reviews in guideline development..