Enhancing the scoping study methodology: a large, inter-professional team’s experience with Arksey and O’Malley’s framework

• Published in: BMC medical research methodology Vol. 13; no. 1; p. 48
• Main Authors: Daudt, Helena ML, van Mossel, Catherine, Scott, Samantha J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 23.03.2013; BioMed Central
• Subjects: Access to Information; Analysis; Cancer therapies; Colorectal cancer; Colorectal Neoplasms; Databases, Bibliographic; Debate; Health Services Research; Humans; Information Storage and Retrieval; Interdisciplinary Communication; Interdisciplinary research; Medical literature; Medical research; Methodology; Methods; Needs Assessment; Professional sports; Review Literature as Topic; Studies

Scoping studies are increasingly common for broadly searching the literature on a specific topic, yet researchers lack an agreed-upon definition of and framework for the methodology. In 2005, Arksey and O'Malley offered a methodological framework for conducting scoping studies. In their subsequ...