Table 2 Verbatim description of types of reviews used to synthesise Indigenous health reviews

 Systematic review

27; 36%

[17, 18, 20, 21, 26, 33–39, 42, 55–68]

 Systematic review of the quantitative literature, descriptive studies, epidemiology and risk factors or intervention review

4; 5%

[43, 69–71]

 Systematic search

2; 3%

[23, 27]

 Critical review^a

2; 3%

[2, 72]

 Rapid review^a

1;1%

[73]

 Meta-analysis

4; 5%

[19, 24, 25]

 Meta-synthesis of the evidence, meta-ethnography or narrative synthesis

3; 4%

[22, 28, 41]

 Integrative review

2; 3%

[74, 75]

 Resource sheet

15; 20%

[49, 50, 76–88]

 Literature review (or review, review of the evidence, review of the literature)

13; 17%

[40, 44–46, 48, 51, 89–95]

 Contextual review

1; 1%

[47]

 Bibliometric analysis

1; 1%

[15]

 Brief review

1; 1%

[96]