Staff Profile
Sheila Wallace
Research Fellow
- Email: sheila.wallace@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Evidence Synthesis Group and NIHR Innovation Observatory
Population Health Sciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
The Catalyst
3 Science Square
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 5TG
Sheila Wallace is a Research Fellow based within the Evidence Synthesis Group at Newcastle University and the Cochrane Information Specialist with the NIHR-funded Cochrane Incontinence. She has over 25 years’ experience in evidence synthesis as an information specialist and systematic reviewer. She is an Editor for Cochrane Incontinence (2013 onwards) and is an experienced Cochrane author (18 new and/or updated reviews) and has also co-authored seven NIHR HTA evidence syntheses. She worked on her first evidence synthesis in 1992 and continues to work in this area including more recently on three reviews involving network meta-analyses. Sheila has also co-authored 24 non-Cochrane non-HTA publications related to or based on evidence syntheses. She has been a co-applicant on a number of successfully completed projects including a number funded by NIHR and was a co-applicant on the newly NIHR-funded Newcastle University-based Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs) centre. She is an experienced supervisor including the supervision of evidence synthesis specialists as well as information specialists conducting searches for the Newcastle NICE External Assessment Centre (EAC) based in Newcastle University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She is a member of the Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group. Sheila's Google Scholar profile is here.
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Articles
- O'Keefe H, Rankin J, Wallace SA, Beyer F. Investigation of text‐mining methodologies to aid the construction of search strategies in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy–a case study. Research Synthesis Methods 2023, 14(1), 79-98.
- O'Connor N, Thomson KH, Gill S, Jackson S, Wallace SA, Pearson F. A rapid priority setting exercise combining existing, emergent evidence with stakeholder knowledge identified broad topic uncertainties. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2023, 154, P178-187.
- Thomson KH, O'Connor N, Dangova KT, Gill S, Jackson S, Bliss DZ, Wallace SA, Pearson F. Rapid priority setting exercise on faecal incontinence for Cochrane Incontinence. BMJ Open Gastroenterology 2022, 9, e000847.
- Thomson KH, Dangova K, Bliss DZ, Wallace S, O'Connor N, Richter HE, Pearson F. Future developments and new technologies in the field of faecal incontinence: scanning the horizon using late-stage clinical trial registrations. BMJ Innovations 2022, 8(4), 278-284.
- Javanbakht M, Moloney E, Brazzelli M, Wallace S, Omar MI, Monga A, Saraswat L, Mackie P, Imamura M, Hudson J, Shimonovich M, MacLennan G, Vale L, Craig D. Surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence: a systematic review of economic evidence. Systematic Reviews 2020, 9(1), 85.
- Imamura M, Scott NW, Wallace SA, Ogah JA, Ford AA, Dubos YA, Brazzelli M. Interventions for treating people with symptoms of bladder pain syndrome: a network meta‐analysis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, (7), CD013325.pub2.
- Javanbakht M, Moloney E, Brazzelli M, Wallace S, Ternent L, Omar MI, Monga A, Saraswat L, Mackie P, Becker F, Imamura M, Hudson J, Shimonovich M, MacLennan G, Vale L, Craig D. Economic evaluation of surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence: a cost-utility and value of information analysis . BMJ Open 2020, 10(6), e035555.
- Brazzelli M, Javanbakht M, Imamura M, Hudson J, Moloney E, Becker F, Wallace S, Omar MI, Shimonovich M, MacLennan G, Ternent L, Vale L, Montgomery I, Mackie P, Saraswat L, Monga A, Craig D. Surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence: the ESTER systematic review and economic evaluation. Health Technology Assessment 2019, 23(14).
- Imamura M, Hudson J, Wallace SA, MacLennan G, Shimonovich M, Omar MI, Javanbakht M, Moloney E, Becker F, Ternent L, Montgomery I, Mackie P, Saraswat L, Monga A, Vale L, Craig D, Brazzelli M. Surgical interventions for women with stress urinary incontinence: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BMJ 2019, 365, l1842.
- Imamura M, Scott NW, Ogah JA, Ford AA, Wallace SA, Dubos YA, Brazzelli M. Interventions for treating people with symptoms of bladder pain syndrome: A network meta-analysis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019, 2019(5), CD013325.
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Book Chapters
- Dumoulin C, Booth J, Cacciari L, Campbell P, Hagen S, Homsi J, Morin M, Morkved S, Nahon I, Pang R, Panicker J, Vesentini G, Wallace S, Yamanishi T. Conservative Management of UI and POP in Adults, including neurological patients (Chapter 8). In: Cardozo,L;Rovner,E;Wagg,A;Wein,A;Abrams,P, ed. Incontinence: 7th International Consultation on Incontinence. Bristol, UK: International Continence Society (ICS) and International Consultation on Urological Diseases (ICUD), 2023, pp.795-1038.
- Dumoulin C, Adewuyi T, Booth J, Bradley C, Burgio K, Hagen S, Hunter K, Imamura M, Morin M, Morkved S, Thakar R, Wallace S, Williams K. Adult conservative management. In: Abrams P, Cardozo L, Wagg A, Wein A, ed. Incontinence: 6th International Consultation on Incontinence, Tokyo, September 2016. Bristol, UK: International Continence Society (ICS) and International Consultation on Urological Diseases (ICUD), 2017, pp.1443-1628.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)
- Carter E, Elstub L, Wallace S, Vale L. Writing a Cochrane Review update: getting started and challenges to overcome. In: 27th Cochrane Colloquium, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2020, Toronto, Canada: Wiley.
- Carter E, Elstub L, Wallace S, Vale L. Help! Where do I begin? A troubleshooting guide to updating a Cochrane intervention review as a new review author. In: Abstracts of the 26th Cochrane Colloquium. 2020, Santiago, Chile: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
- Haston S, Wallace S, Sobiesuo P, Vale L. Economic evaluations of interventions for urinary incontinence and mapping the evidence gaps. In: 27th Cochrane Colloquium, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2020, Toronto, Canada: Wiley.
- Barron Millar E, Stoniute A, Still M, Wallace S. Deciding when to make a Cochrane Review update the final iteration. In: 27th Cochrane Colloquium, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2020, Toronto, Canada: Wiley.
- Scott N, Imamura M, Wallace S, Brazzelli M. Conducting network meta-analysis of treatments for bladder pain syndrome in adults: benefits and challenges (poster presentation: abstract number 47). In: Abstracts of the 26th Cochrane Colloquium. 2020, Santiago, Chile: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
- Imamura M, Scott N, Wallace S, Ogah J, Ford A, Brazzelli M. What are the most effective interventions for treatment of bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis? A network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. In: Proceedings of the International Continence Society (ICS). 2018, Philadelphia, United States: Wiley.
- Imamura M, Hudson J, Brazzelli M, MacLennan G, Wallace S, Javanbakht M, Moloney E, Vale L, Craig D. Surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence: a network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. In: Proceedings of the International Continence Society (ICS). 2018, Philadelphia, United States: Wiley.
- Brazzelli M, Montgomery I, Imamura M, Hudson J, Javanbakht M, Moloney E, Wallace S, MacLennan G, Vale L, Craig D. Patient representative involvement in complex evidence syntheses can provide valuable background experience and may supplement clinical findings. In: Abstracts of the 25th Cochrane Colloquium, Edinburgh, UK. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2018, Edinburgh, UK.
- Imamura M, Wallace SA, Brazzelli M, Hudson J, MacLennan G, Javanbakht M, Moloney E, Vale L, Craig D. Methodological challenges in performing network meta-analyses using data from Cochrane intervention reviews: are data across reviews reliable and consistent?. In: Abstracts of the 25th Cochrane Colloquium, Edinburgh, UK. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2018, Edinburgh, UK: Wiley.
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Review
- Daly C, Cody JD, Khan I, Rabindranath KS, Vale L, Wallace SA. Double bag or Y-set versus standard transfer systems for continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in end-stage kidney disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2014, (8), CD003078.