ArticleSystematic reviews2021
Establishing a comprehensive search strategy for Indigenous health literature reviews.
Article in Systematic reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Digital Health Interventions on Body Weight and Dietary Intake Outcomes Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and Indigenous Populations: A Systematic Review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Developing the Digital Health Communication Maturity Model: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Cancer Screening Services: What Do Indigenous Communities Want? A Systematic Review.JCO global oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Health effects of Indigenous language use and revitalization: a realist review.International journal for equity in health · 2022Pooled it
- Inequities in access to palliative care and community-based indigenous palliative care programs in Canada: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2026Article
- Association of Circulating Inflammatory Biomarker Levels and Toxicity in Patients Undergoing Pelvic Radiation for Cancer: A Critical Review.Advances in radiation oncology · 2025Review
- Experiences of Indigenous peoples living with pelvic health conditions: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Ethical Imperatives for Working With Diverse Populations in Digital Research.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Application of the capability approach to Indigenous People's health and well-being: protocol for a mixed-methods scoping review.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Dissertation writing in post graduate medical education.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAppropriate search strategies are essential to ensure the integrity and reproducibility of systematic and scoping reviews, as researchers seek to capture as many relevant resources as possible. In the case of Indigenous health reviews, researchers are met with the special challenge of creating a search strategy that can encompass this large, diverse population group with no universally agreed upon identification criteria. MAIN BODY: With an aim to promote improved review methodologies that uphold standards of justice, autonomy, and equity for Indigenous peoples and other heterogeneous populations, we describe critical gaps and approaches to close them. We report organizational and transparency issues around how Indigenous populations are indexed in several major databases, and draw on examples of published reviews and protocols to demonstrate the challenges inherent to creating a comprehensive search strategy.
conclusionsThe conduct and communication of results from health literature research on global Indigenous populations are compromised by challenges of methodology that are rooted in the complexities inherent to defining Indigenous peoples. These challenges must be urgently addressed to improve this important field of inquiry moving forward.
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