Verdejo, CatalinaTapia-Benavente, LuisSchuller-Martínez, BastiánVergara-Merino, LauraVargas-Peirano, ManuelSilva-Dreyer, Ana María2022-11-302022-11-302021Verdejo C, Tapia-Benavente L, Schuller-Martínez B, Vergara-Merino L, Vargas-Peirano M, Silva-Dreyer AM. What you need to know about scoping reviews. Medwave 2021;21(02):e8144http://repositoriobibliotecas.uv.cl/handle/uvscl/7574he increasing amount of evidence has caused an increasing amount of literature reviews. There are different types of reviews —systematic reviews are the best known—, and every type of review has different purposes. The scoping review is a recent model that aims to answer broad questions and identify and expose the available evidence for a broader question, using a rigorous and reproducible method. In the last two decades, researchers have discussed the most appropriate method to carry out scoping reviews, and recently the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses’ for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR) reporting guideline was published. This is the fifth article of a methodological collaborative series of narrative reviews about general topics on biostatistics and clinical epidemiology. This review aims to describe what scoping reviews are, identify their objectives, differentiate them from other types of reviews, and provide considerations on how to carry them out.Esta obra de Medwave está bajo una licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial 3.0 Unported. Esta licencia permite el uso, distribución y reproducción del artículo en cualquier medio, siempre y cuando se otorgue el crédito correspondiente al autor del artículo y al medio en que se publica, en este caso, Medwave.SCOPING REVIEWS AS TOPICLITERATURE REVIEW AS TOPICEVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINESYSTEMATIC MAPPINGArticulohttp://doi.org/10.5867/medwave.2021.02.8144