Journal article
Reporting quality of scoping reviews in dental public health
BMC medical research methodology, Vol.23(1), pp.53-10
02/27/2023
DOI: 10.1186/s12874-023-01863-2
PMCID: PMC9972695
PMID: 36849932
Abstract
BackgroundThe study aimed to explore reporting characteristics of scoping reviews in dental public health and the impact of some factors on the reporting quality.MethodsThis study searched for dental public health scoping reviews in PubMed and Scopus without year restrictions and restricted to English-language publications. Study selection was undertaken by two reviewers independently. One reviewer, after training, extracted data from included studies considering general study characteristics and reporting characteristics. The impact of PRISMA-ScR publication, journal endorsement, and use of study protocol on the reporting was explored.ResultsEighty-one scoping reviews were included. Five items presented rates of appropriate reporting higher than 80% considering the overall percentage. Related to the impact of PRISMA-ScR publication, six items were found more often in scoping reviews published after the publication of PRISMA-ScR than in scoping reviews published before the publication of PRISMA-ScR. With regards to journals endorsement, only two reporting characteristics were found more often in scoping reviews published in journals that endorse the PRISMA-ScR statement than in scoping reviews published in non-endorsers journals. Last, regarding the use of the pre-specified protocol, five reporting characteristics presented differences in studies reporting the use of pre-specified protocol than in studies that did not mention the use of a protocol. All differences were statistically significant.ConclusionsImportant information is missing in the included scoping reviews demonstrating crucial reporting problems.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reporting quality of scoping reviews in dental public health
- Creators
- Lara Dotto - Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das MissõesMateus Bertolini Fernandes dos Santos - Universidade Federal de PelotasRafael Sarkis-Onofre - Atitus Educ, Grad Program Dent, 304,Senador Pinheiro St, BR-99070220 Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- BMC medical research methodology, Vol.23(1), pp.53-10
- DOI
- 10.1186/s12874-023-01863-2
- PMID
- 36849932
- PMCID
- PMC9972695
- NLM abbreviation
- BMC Med Res Methodol
- ISSN
- 1471-2288
- eISSN
- 1471-2288
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/27/2023
- Academic Unit
- Prosthodontics
- Record Identifier
- 9984945918802771
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