Ensuring that hospital research advances Māori health equity is a key purpose of ethics and locality approval processes in Aotearoa. A systematic integrative literature review method was prescribed, which involved a comprehensive systematic collection and review of database and hand‐searched items using English and te reo Māori terms, MeSH, keywords and questions. A dual appraisal of literature was undertaken using Rayyan software and Microsoft Office, before a descriptive thematic analysis of relevant sources. This article examined 106 literature sources published between 1980 and 2021 to identify and understand how Indigenous review and engagement processes can enhance Māori responsiveness in research. Findings affirmed challenges and opportunities in implementing Māori research reviews, consistent with the pūrākau of Tāne and the attainment of Ngā Kete o te Wānanga. Subsequently, Ngā kete o te Rangahau, the three baskets of research, emerged, generating a framework for considering responsiveness in Māori research reviews.
Apaapa-Timu et al. (Mon,) studied this question.