Ros Wade
Research Fellow
Email: ros.wade@york.ac.uk
Tel: 01904 321051
Fax: 01904 321041
Ros's role within CRD includes undertaking and critiquing systematic reviews of health interventions and producing and checking abstracts for DARE.
Ros has extensive experience in the methodology and conduct of systematic reviews. Over the past ten years she has worked on numerous systematic reviews of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for various clinical indications. Most recently, Ros was the lead reviewer on NICE's first diagnostic technology assessment, on the EOS low dose 2D/3D X-ray imaging system for patients with orthopaedic conditions.
Ros has a particular interest in systematic reviews in the area of oncology.Current research projects
Adjunctive colposcopy technologies for examination of the uterine cervix– Dysis, LuViva Advanced Cervical Scan, Niris Imaging System and APX 100Selected publications
Phillips B, Wade R, Stewart LA, Sutton AJ. Systematic review and meta-analysis of the discriminatory performance of risk prediction rules in febrile neutropaenic episodes in children and young people. European Journal of Cancer 2010;46(16):2950-2964
Collins R, Burch J, Cranny G, Aguiar-Ibáñez R, Craig D, Wright K, Berry E, Gough M, Kleijnen J, Westwood M. Duplex ultrasonography, magnetic resonance angiography, and computed tomography angiography for the diagnosis and assessment of symptomatic, lower limb peripheral arterial disease: systematic review. BMJ 2007;334:1257-1261
Collins R, Trowman R, Norman G, Light K, Birtle A, Fenwick E, Palmer S, Riemsma R. A systematic review of the effectiveness of docetaxel and mitoxantrone for the treatment of metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer. British Journal of Cancer 2006;95:457-462
Collins R, Lewis R, Flynn A, Emmans Dean M, Myers L, Wilson P, Eastwood A. Improving the reporting of clinical audits in the NHS. Clinical Governance: An International Journal 2005;10(3):190-195
Collins R, Flynn A, Melville A, Richardson R, Eastwood A. Effective health care: management of head and neck cancers. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2005;14(2):144-148
Collins RF, Bekker HL, Dodwell DJ. Follow-up care of patients treated for breast cancer: a structured review. Cancer Treatment Reviews 2004;30(1):19-35