Recommendations for the extraction, analysis, and presentation of results in scoping reviews

Danielle Pollock; Micah D J Peters; Hanan Khalil; Patricia McInerney; Lyndsay Alexander; Andrea C Tricco; Catrin Evans; Érica Brandão de Moraes; Christina M Godfrey; Dawid Pieper; Ashrita Saran; Cindy Stern; Zachary Munn

doi:10.11124/JBIES-22-00123

Recommendations for the extraction, analysis, and presentation of results in scoping reviews

JBI Evid Synth. 2023 Mar 1;21(3):520-532. doi: 10.11124/JBIES-22-00123.

Authors

Danielle Pollock¹, Micah D J Peters^{2

3

4}, Hanan Khalil⁵, Patricia McInerney⁶, Lyndsay Alexander^{7

8}, Andrea C Tricco^{9

10

11}, Catrin Evans¹², Érica Brandão de Moraes^{13

14}, Christina M Godfrey¹¹, Dawid Pieper^{15

16}, Ashrita Saran^{17

18}, Cindy Stern¹, Zachary Munn¹

Affiliations

¹ JBI, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
² University of South Australia, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
³ Adelaide Nursing School, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
⁴ The Centre for Evidence-based Practice South Australia (CEPSA): A JBI Centre of Excellence.
⁵ School of Psychology and Public Health, Department of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁶ The Wits-JBI Centre for Evidence-based Practice: A JBI Centre of Excellence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁷ School of Health Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.
⁸ The Scottish Centre for Evidence-based, Multi-professional Practice: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.
⁹ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹⁰ Epidemiology Division and Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
¹¹ Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Queen's University School of Nursing, Kingston, ON, Canada.
¹² The Nottingham Centre for Evidence-based Healthcare: A JBI Centre of Excellence, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
¹³ Department of Nursing Fundamentals and Administration, Nursing School, Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹⁴ The Brazilian Centre of Evidence-based Healthcare: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁵ Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Brandenburg Medical School (Theodor Fontane), Institute for Health Services and Health System Research, Rüdersdorf, Germany.
¹⁶ Center for Health Services Research, Brandenburg Medical School (Theodor Fontane), Rüdersdorf, Germany.
¹⁷ International Development Coordinating Group (IDCG), The Campbell Collaboration New Delhi, India.
¹⁸ The Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group, New Delhi, India.

PMID: 36081365
DOI: 10.11124/JBIES-22-00123

Abstract

Scoping reviewers often face challenges in the extraction, analysis, and presentation of scoping review results. Using best-practice examples and drawing on the expertise of the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group and an editor of a journal that publishes scoping reviews, this paper expands on existing JBI scoping review guidance. The aim of this article is to clarify the process of extracting data from different sources of evidence; discuss what data should be extracted (and what should not); outline how to analyze extracted data, including an explanation of basic qualitative content analysis; and offer suggestions for the presentation of results in scoping reviews.