Background The scoping review has become an increasingly popular approach for
synthesizing research evidence. It is a relatively new approach for which a universal study
definition or definitive procedure has not been established. The purpose of this scoping
review was to provide an overview of scoping reviews in the literature. Methods A scoping
review was conducted using the Arksey and O'Malley framework. A search was conducted in
four bibliographic databases and the gray literature to identify scoping review studies�…