Scoping review and systematic reviews are both valuable, but serve different purposes

Although most people are familiar with systematic reviews, there are a wide variety of types of evidence synthesis that serve different purposes. Evidence synthesis can summarize one type of research like randomized controlled trials as often happens in systematic reviews of effectiveness studies. However, evidence synthesis can also summarize qualitative research and other study designs. Systematic reviews focus on identifying and synthesizing the highest quality of evidence through highly standardized procedures that include how the literature is searched, the critical appraisal tools used, how the literature is synthesized to make recommendations, and even the wording of those recommendations.

Source: Journal of Hand Therapy - January 1, 2024 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: JC MacDermid Tags: Editorial Source Type: research