'Scoping the scope' of a cochrane review
'Scoping the scope' of a cochrane review
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DOI：
10.1093/pubmed/fdr015
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发表时间：
2011-03-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Waters, Elizabeth
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作者：
Armstrong, Rebecca;Hall, Belinda J.;Waters, Elizabeth
系统性综述使用一个透明和系统的过程来定义研究问题，搜索研究，评估其质量并定性或定量地综合研究结果。系统评价过程中的一个关键步骤是彻底定义研究问题的范围。这需要了解现有文献，包括差距和不确定性，澄清与研究问题有关的定义，并了解现有文献中这些定义的概念化方式。然而，收集和组织重要的背景资料并了解现有证据基础的一种有用且日益流行的方法是，进行范围审查。这些综述本身可以作为研究成果发表，并且具有吸引力，因为它们产生了广泛的证据地图，如果足够透明并通过出版物广泛获得，可以被许多人使用，并用于超出作者最初预期目的的应用。范围审查可以为系统性审查提供信息，特别是具有非常广泛主题范围的审查，例如由科克伦公共卫生小组编辑的审查。
Systematic reviews use a transparent and systematic process to define a research question, search for studies, assess their quality and synthesize findings qualitatively or quantitatively. A crucial step in the systematic review process is to thoroughly define the scope of the research question. This requires an understanding of existing literature, including gaps and uncertainties, clarification of definitions related to the research question and an understanding of the way in which these are conceptualized within existing literature.This information is often acquired in an ad hoc fashion, however a useful and increasingly popular way to collect and organize important background information and develop a picture of the existing evidence base is to conduct a scoping review. Such reviews may be published as a research outcome in their own right and are appealing since they produce a broad map of the evidence that, if sufficiently transparent and widely available via publication, can be used by many and for applications beyond the authors originally intended purpose. Scoping reviews can inform a systematic review, particularly one with a very broad topic scope, such as those edited by the Cochrane Public Health Group.