Between November 2004 and July 2007, 2535 women were recruited to the SCOPE study in Auckland and Adelaide and follow up was complete in 99% of participants (n=2504, fig 1).
This model is consistent with our mutagenesis results (Table 2) in which Phe-4 can be replaced by Tyr and Trp but not Ala, and Arg-8 can be replaced by Lys, but not Glu and His, as well as the result from the substrate scope study in which coumarin iodide gave a lower yield.
These components constitute a large proportion of all publicly accessible scoping studies in health care and beyond.
NG led on reviewing the role of scoping studies in influencing policy makers and practitioners, and prepared Additional file 2. PA led on the review of commissioning research that is used.
Stakeholder consultations therefore do not constitute scoping studies in their own right, but they do have an important part to play in scoping studies concerned with the identification of research priorities, in helping to target research questions, and in validating the outcomes of scoping studies through peer-review.
Two of the teams who have carried out scoping studies commissioned by the SDO Programme (those on continuity of care and on services to support carers of people with mental health problems) have described their experience of undertaking scoping studies in the academic literature [ 81, 82].
The SDO Programme commissioned its first scoping study in 2000.
However, the researchers undertaking this work have not always described it as a scoping study in their final report and publications.
However, a fine balance must be struck between the laborious nature of study identification and the need for comprehensiveness on the one hand, with the need to complete a scoping study in a timely fashion, on the other.
Likewise others who have undertaken work not described as a scoping study in the commissioning brief have nevertheless described it as such in their final report or published papers.
