Reviews of primary research are becoming more common as evidence-based practice gains
recognition as the benchmark for care, and the number of, and access to, primary research
sources has grown. One of the newer review types is the 'scoping review'. In general,
scoping reviews are commonly used for 'reconnaissance'–to clarify working definitions and
conceptual boundaries of a topic or field. Scoping reviews are therefore particularly useful
when a body of literature has not yet been comprehensively reviewed, or exhibits a complex�…