Scoping Review

The review is intended to identify knowledge gaps and inform future research. A scoping review is considered more appropriate than a narrower systematic review for this topic because it is broad, spanning assessment methods, prevention, intervention, dehydration, overload, and care home implementation. The review identified 1,745 records in total and included 18 studies, most of which used qualitative interviews and/or focus groups. Only one included paper had been published in the previous five years, raising concerns about currency of the evidence. The review included 23 sources across several study and document types. The English-language restriction is a pragmatic limitation that may exclude relevant non-English evidence. Future research should use observations or recordings of real consultations to characterise common communication practices and their effects. The scoping review will include publications from 2010 to the present in several European languages. No formal critical appraisal was performed because this was consistent with scoping review methodology. No formal quality appraisal was conducted because it was considered inconsistent with the purpose of a scoping revie…