Tips for Improving the Writing and Reporting Quality of Systematic, Scoping, and Narrative Reviews

Horsley, Tanya

doi:10.1097/ceh.0000000000000241

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“…An SSR allows for a structured approach to systematic extraction, synthesis of actionable and applicable information and a summary of available literature across a wide range of settings [ 27 – 30 ]. To overcome concerns about the transparency and reproducibility of SSRs, we adopt Krishna’s Systematic Evidence Based Approach (SEBA) [ 31 – 37 ].…”

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The impact of death and dying on the personhood of medical students: a systematic scoping review

Kow

Chia

et al. 2020

BMC Med Educ

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Background The re-introduction of medical students into healthcare systems struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns as to whether they will be supported when confronted with death and dying patients in resource-limited settings and with reduced support from senior clinicians. Better understanding of how medical students respond to death and dying will inform educationalists and clinicians on how to best support them. Methods We adopt Krishna’s Systematic Evidence Based Approach to carry out a Systematic Scoping Review (SSR in SEBA) on the impact of death and dying on medical students. This structured search process and concurrent use of thematic and directed content analysis of data from six databases (Split Approach) enhances the transparency and reproducibility of this review. Results Seven thousand six hundred nineteen were identified, 149 articles reviewed and 52 articles included. The Split Approach revealed similar themes and categories that correspond to the Innate, Individual, Relational and Societal domains in the Ring Theory of Personhood. Conclusion Facing death and dying amongst their patients affect how medical students envisage their personhood. This underlines the need for timely, holistic and longitudinal support systems to ensure that problems faced are addressed early. To do so, there must be effective training and a structured support mechanism.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of death and dying on the personhood of medical students: a systematic scoping review

Kow

Chia

et al. 2020

BMC Med Educ

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“…Building upon Li et al's, 35 Wilkinson et al's 4 and Veloski et al's 36 reviews, this scoping review explores the size and scope 37 of published data in peer-reviewed literature on tools used to assess medical professionalism. [38][39][40][41][42][43] Use of a scoping review also allows for the systematic extraction, synthesis and summarising of actionable and applicable information 44 in available literature 45,46 across a wide range of pedagogies, assessment contents and practice settings.…”

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Assessing Professionalism in Medicine – A Scoping Review of Assessment Tools from 1990 to 2018

Tay

Hee

et al. 2020

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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Background: Medical professionalism enhances doctor-patient relationships and advances patient-centric care. However, despite its pivotal role, the concept of medical professionalism remains diversely understood, taught and thus poorly assessed with Singapore lacking a linguistically sensitive, context specific and culturally appropriate assessment tool. A scoping review of assessments of professionalism in medicine was thus carried out to better guide its understanding. Methods: Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) approach to scoping reviews was used to identify appropriate publications featured in four databases published between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2018. Seven members of the research team employed thematic analysis to evaluate the selected articles. Results: 3799 abstracts were identified, 138 full-text articles reviewed and 74 studies included. The two themes identified were the context-specific nature of assessments and competency-based stages in medical professionalism. Conclusions: Prevailing assessments of professionalism in medicine must contend with differences in setting, context and levels of professional development as these explicate variances found in existing assessment criteria and approaches. However, acknowledging the significance of context-specific competency-based stages in medical professionalism will allow the forwarding of guiding principles to aid the design of a culturally-sensitive and practical approach to assessing professionalism.

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“…A systematic scoping review was deemed the appropriate method because of its focus on mapping the concept of engagement (Arksey and O'Malley, 2005). This approach is particularly useful to synthesize and summarize knowledge about an objective in question that exhibits a high level of heterogeneity and complexity that spans disciplines (Horsley, 2019).…”

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The Concept and Components of Engagement in Different Domains Applied to eHealth: A Systematic Scoping Review

2020

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Within the context of eHealth interventions, a shared understanding of what constitutes engagement in and with eHealth technologies is missing. A clearer understanding of engagement could provide a valuable starting point for guidelines relating to the design and development of eHealth technologies. Given the cross-disciplinary use of the term "engagement," investigating how engagement (and its components) is conceptualized in different domains could lead to determining common components that are deemed important for eHealth technological design. As such, the aim of this paper was 3-fold: (a) to investigate in which domains engagement features, (b) to determine what constitutes engagement in these different domains, and (c) to determine whether there are any common components that seem to be important. A comprehensive systematic scoping review of the existing literature was conducted in order to identify the domains in which engagement is used, to extract the associated definitions of engagement, and to identify the dimensionality or components thereof. A search of five bibliographic databases yielded 1,231 unique records. All titles, abstracts, and full texts were screened based on specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. This led to 69 articles being included for further analyses. The results showed that engagement is used in seven functional domains, categorized as follows: student (n = 18), customer (n = 12), health (n = 11), society (n = 10), work (n = 9), digital (n = 8), and transdisciplinary (n = 1) domains. It seems that some domains are more mature regarding their conceptualization and theorizing on engagement than others. Further, engagement was found to be predominantly conceptualized as a multidimensional construct with three common components (behavior, cognition, and affective) shared between domains. Although engagement is prolifically used in different disciplines, it is evident that little shared consensus as to its conceptualization within and between domains exists. Despite this, engagement is foremost seen as a state of being engaged in/with something, which is part of, but should not be confused with, the process of engagement. Behavior, cognition, and affect are important components of engagement and should be specified for each new context.

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Tips for Improving the Writing and Reporting Quality of Systematic, Scoping, and Narrative Reviews

Cited by 47 publications

References 28 publications

The impact of death and dying on the personhood of medical students: a systematic scoping review

The impact of death and dying on the personhood of medical students: a systematic scoping review

Assessing Professionalism in Medicine – A Scoping Review of Assessment Tools from 1990 to 2018

The Concept and Components of Engagement in Different Domains Applied to eHealth: A Systematic Scoping Review

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