Fiona Campbell
Research Fellow
Address:
HEDS, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
Sheffield S1 4DA
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0767
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095
E-mail: f.campbell@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 1019
Biography
I trained and worked as a nurse, health visitor and district nurse both in the UK and in West Africa. My experiences as a nurse led to a keen interest in evidence based health care. I worked for the Royal College of Nursing and gained training and experience in systematic review methodology. This was further consolidated by working as a systematic reviewer for the Newcastle Guideline Development Unit. Since joining ScHARR in 2007 I have worked on a wide range of systematic reviews to support NICE guidance including treatments for angina, interventions to reduce drug errors in hospital and public health interventions to reduce excessive weight gain in pregnancy. I have undertaken additional work in methodological areas of systematic reviewing.
I have conducted and supported the development of Cochrane Systematic Reviews. I am the lead author of four reviews and co-author on another eight. I have also helped other teams of reviewers who have required additional methodological support in the conduct of their review. I am a peer reviewer for the Cochrane Wounds Group, the Cochrane Hypertension Group, the British Medical Journal and BIOMED Central.
I also work part-time as a Stroke Prevention Researcher, funded by the CLAHRC (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care)
Research interests
My research interests are:
- Use of evidence to support decision making
- Incorporating non-RCT evidence in systematic reviews
- Assessment of patient reported outcomines in clinical trials and methods of synthesis
- Methods of synthesising qualitative and quantitative reviews
- Use of expert opinion in systematic reviews
- Any issues relating to improving health in low and middle income countries
Teaching Interests
I am involved with teaching both on the undergraduate MBBS course and post-graduate Masters programmes within ScHARR. I also supervise Masters Dissertation projects. Recently as part of a small team I delivered a teaching programme to health care managers and providers on quality improvements and evidence based practice in the Maldives.
Professional Activities
- Systematic reviewer for the ScHARR Technology Assessment Group (TAG) completing HTA reports for NETSCC
- Previously, a systematic reviewer for the Review Body for Interventional Procedures and Public Health Collaborating Centre
- Lecturer and dissertation supervisor (systematic review) for the Master's in Public Health (Health Services Research) and Master's in Decision and Economic Modelling
- Author or co-author of 12 Cochrane Reviews
Current Projects
- Systematic review and modelling of the cost effectiveness of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging compared to current existing testing pathways in cardiac disease (PI: Steve Thomas)
- Community based peer support: developing a model for promoting health literacy (COPES). NIHR Public Health Research Programme (PI: Dr Janet Harris)
Key publications
- Kavanagh J, Campbell F & Thomas J. Synthesising quantitative and qualitative evidence. In: Synthesizing Qualitative Research, Editors Hannes K. & Lockwood C.
- Campbell F, Johnson M, Messina J, Guillaume L, Goyder E. Behavioural interventions for weight management in pregnancy: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative data. BMC Public Health 2011; 11:491.
- Karnon J, Campbell F, Czoski-Murray C. Model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions aimed at preventing medication error at hospital admission (medicines reconcilliation). 2009, J Eval.Clin.Pract., Vol 15, no. 22, pp 299-306
- Kaner E.F., Dickinson H.O., Beyer F., Pienaar E., Schlesinger C., Campbell F., Saunders J.B., Burnand B., & Heather N. The effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions in primary care settings: A systematic review. . 2009, Drug Alcohol Rev., Vol 28, no. 3, pp 301-323
- Dickinson H., Campbell F., Beyer F., Nicolson D., Cook J., Ford G., & Mason J. Relaxation therapies for the management of primary hypertension in adults: a Cochrane review. 2008, J Hum Hypertens., Vol 22, no.12, pp 809-820
- Methods underpinning national clinical guidelines for hypertension: describing the evidence shortfall. BMC Health Services Research 2006;6:47 (with Dickinson HO, Cook J, Beyer FR, Eccles M, Mason JM).
- Lifestyle interventions to reduce raised blood pressure: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Hypertension 2006;24:215-33 (with Dickinson HO, Mason JM, Nicolson DJ, Cook J, Renton F, Ford GA, Mason J).
- Potassium supplementation for the management of essential hypertension in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006, Issue 3, CD004641 (with Dickinson HO, Nicolson DJ, Beyer FR, Mason J).
- Relaxation therapies for the management of essential hypertension in adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (with Dickinson HO, Nicolson DJ, Cook J, Renton F, Ford GA, Mason J).
- Brief interventions for excessive drinkers in primary care health settings. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (with Kaner E, Pienaar ED, Renton F, Saunders J).