Charting the data
According to the methodological framework of Arksey and O’Malley,
charting the data and collating the results are iterative and narrative
processes: “A ’narrative review’ or ’descriptive analytical’ method is
used to extract contextual or process oriented information from each
study.”11 For this scoping review, it was first
searched for characteristics of the included body of literature, and
then for the main characteristics of prenatal counseling for extreme
prematurity at the limit of viability. Data was charted from the
included studies using a data extraction tool developed by the
reviewers. The tool included data about the authors, the year of
publication, the journal, the study design, the country in which the
study was conducted, the objective of the study, and the result or
conclusion of the study. Two researchers (LDP, EJTV) discussed the
extracted data and categorized the data for further analysis.