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. 2021 Mar 30;21(2):e8144.
doi: 10.5867/medwave.2021.02.8144.

What you need to know about scoping reviews

[Article in Spanish, English]
Catalina Verdejo  1 , Luis Tapia-Benavente  2 , Bastián Schuller-Martínez  3 , Laura Vergara-Merino  4 , Manuel Vargas-Peirano  5 , Ana María Silva-Dreyer  6
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What you need to know about scoping reviews

[Article in Spanish, English]
Catalina Verdejo et al. Medwave. .

Abstract
in English, Spanish

The increasing amount of evidence has caused an increasing amount of literature reviews. There are different types of reviews systematic reviews are the best known, and every type of review has different purposes. The scoping review is a recent model that aims to answer broad questions and identify and expose the available evidence for a broader question, using a rigorous and reproducible method. In the last two decades, researchers have discussed the most appropriate method to carry out scoping reviews, and recently the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) reporting guideline was published. This is the fifth article of a methodological collaborative series of narrative reviews about general topics on biostatistics and clinical epidemiology. This review aims to describe what scoping reviews are, identify their objectives, differentiate them from other types of reviews, and provide considerations on how to carry them out.

La cantidad creciente de evidencia ha provocado a su vez un aumento en el número de revisiones de la literatura. Existen distintos tipos de revisiones donde las más conocidas son las revisiones sistemáticas, y cada tipo de revisión posee objetivos distintos. La revisión panorámica (o scoping review) es un modelo reciente que busca dar respuestas a preguntas amplias, a la vez que intenta identificar y exponer la evidencia disponible para una pregunta en particular, a través de un método riguroso y reproducible. En las últimas dos décadas se ha discutido cuál es el método más apropiado para realizarlas, siendo la extensión de Preferred Reporting Items For Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses para Scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) la guía de reporte más recientemente incorporada. Este artículo es el quinto de una serie metodológica colaborativa de revisiones narrativas sobre temáticas de bioestadística y epidemiología clínica. Esta revisión tiene como objetivo describir qué son las revisiones panorámicas, identificar sus objetivos, diferenciarlas de otros tipos de revisiones de literatura, y dar algunas consideraciones sobre cómo estas se pueden llevar a cabo.

Keywords: evidence-based medicine; literature review as topic; systematic mapping; scoping reviews as topic.

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