Evidence synthesis
The School of Medicine hosts an active and productive evidence synthesis team, including systematic reviewers, information specialists and data analysts. The team works together with healthcare professionals and other researchers to generate a wide range of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, including scoping reviews, network meta-analyses, individual participant data meta-analysis, realist synthesis, and mixed method reviews.
Our core team works on a wide range of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, including scoping reviews, network meta-analyses, individual participant data meta-analysis, realist reviews, and mixed method reviews, focusing on questions related to the prevalence and burden of health conditions; diagnosis and assessment; prognosis and prediction; effectiveness of interventions; and guideline development.
Collaborations
The Keele team is part of the NIHR West Midlands Evidence Synthesis Group, led by the University of Warwick and co-led by The University of Birmingham, which aims to provide best evidence, including on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments, tests and other interventions, to support decision-making across health, public health and social care in the UK.
We support the guideline development programme of the British Society of Rheumatology, working with multidisciplinary working groups to ensure guidelines are underpinned by high quality evidence reviews.
We have strong national and international collaborations focusing on evidence synthesis methods. This includes the NIHR School for Primary Care Research Evidence Synthesis group, and Cochrane methods or editorial groups.
Teaching and training
The team offers training and systematic review support to staff, postgraduate researchers and students across Keele University and the local NHS community.
Our active and productive evidence synthesis team, hosted by the School of Medicine, includes systematic reviewers, information specialists and data analysts working with clinicians and other researchers to generate evidence reviews.
We generate a wide range of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, including scoping reviews, network meta-analyses, Individual Participant Data meta-analysis, realist synthesis, and mixed method reviews on a variety of topics.
Our team at Keele is part of the NIHR West Midlands Evidence Synthesis Group, co-led by the University of Warwick and The University of Birmingham. This aims to provide best evidence on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments, tests and other interventions, to support decision-making across health, public health and social care in the UK.
We support the British Society of Rheumatology’s guideline development programme alongside their multidisciplinary working groups to ensure guidelines are underpinned by high quality evidence reviews.
Our team has strong links with national and international collaborations focusing on evidence synthesis methods, such as the NIHR School for Primary Care Research Evidence Synthesis group, and Cochrane methods and editorial groups.
We provide training and support on systematic review methodology and literature searching to staff, postgraduate researchers and students across Keele University and the local NHS community.
Our team
Dr Opeyemi Babatunde
Senior Lecturer Evidence Synthesis and Applied Health Research
- DJW0.109
- +44 1782 7 33927
- o.babatunde@keele.ac.uk
Dr Ram Bajpai
Lecturer in Biostatistics
- DJW1.78
- 01782 738237
- r.bajpai@keele.ac.uk
Dr Nadia Corp
Research Fellow: Information Science/Systematic reviews
- DJW1.103
- +44 1782 7 34890
- n.corp@keele.ac.uk
Professor Lisa Dikomitis
Visiting Professor
Dr Toby Helliwell
Professor in Primary Care and General Practice
- +44 1782 7 34895
- t.helliwell@keele.ac.uk
