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Scoping reviews: the PAGER framework for improving the quality of reporting

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.

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Authors

Bradbury-Jones, Caroline
Aveyard, Helen
Herber, Oliver Rudolf
Isham, Louise
Taylor, Julie
O’Malley, Lisa

Oxford Brookes departments

Department of Nursing

Dates

Year of publication: 2021
Date of RADAR deposit: 2022-11-10


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