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Overview

Beverley Shea is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on subfields such as rheumatology, general health professions, statistics, probability and uncertainty, sociology and political science, and economics and econometrics.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including the Delphi Technique in Research, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders research, clinical practice guidelines implementation, and spondyloarthritis studies and treatments.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Beverley Shea cover a range of subjects in medical research and systematic review methodology. Notable publications include:

  • A tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized follow-up studies of exposure effects (ROBINS-E), 2024, Environment International
  • When to replicate systematic reviews of interventions: consensus checklist, 2020, BMJ
  • The ASAS-OMERACT core domain set for axial spondyloarthritis, 2021, Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
  • The evolution of instrument selection for inclusion in core outcome sets at OMERACT: Filter 2.2, 2021, Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
  • Reporting of health equity considerations in cluster and individually randomized trials, 2020, Trials

Beverley Shea has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Peter Tugwell
  • Robin Christensen
  • George A. Wells
  • David Moher
  • Vivian Welch

Their work appears predominantly in journals and venues such as Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, Research Square, Systematic Reviews, BMJ Open, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism is their most frequent publication venue.

Best Publications

  • AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both

    Beverley J Shea;Beverley J Shea;Barnaby C Reeves;George Wells;Micere Thuku

  • Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews

    Beverley J Shea;Jeremy M Grimshaw;George A Wells;Maarten Boers

  • [ROBIS: a new tool to assess risk of bias in systematic reviews was developed.]

    Penny Whiting;Jelena Savović;Julian P T Higgins;Deborah M Caldwell

  • AMSTAR is a reliable and valid measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews.

    Beverley J. Shea;Candyce Hamel;George A. Wells;Lex M. Bouter

  • Glucosamine therapy for treating osteoarthritis.

    Tanveer Towheed;Lara Maxwell;Tassos P Anastassiades;Beverley Shea

  • Risedronate for the primary and secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women

    George A Wells;Ann Cranney;Joan Peterson;Michel Boucher

  • Philadelphia Panel Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines on Selected Rehabilitation Interventions for Low Back Pain

    John Albright;Richard Allman;Richard Paul Bonfiglio;Alicia Conill

  • Folic acid and folinic acid for reducing side effects in patients receiving methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis.

    Beverley Shea;Michael V Swinden;Elizabeth Tanjong Ghogomu;Zulma Ortiz

  • External Validation of a Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR)

    Beverley J. Shea;Lex M. Bouter;Joan Peterson;Maarten Boers

  • II. Meta-Analysis of Alendronate for the Treatment of Postmenopausal Women

    Ann Cranney;George Wells;Andrew Willan;Lauren Griffith

  • Effects of glucocorticoids on radiological progression in rheumatoid arthritis.

    John R Kirwan;Johannes Wj Bijlsma;Maarten Boers;Beverley Shea

  • V. Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Hormone Replacement Therapy in Treating and Preventing Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women

    George Wells;Peter Tugwell;Beverley Shea;Gordon Guyatt

  • VII. Meta-Analysis of Calcium Supplementation for the Prevention of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

    Beverley Shea;George Wells;Ann Cranney;Nicole Zytaruk

  • Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for knee osteoarthritis.

    Manathip Osiri;Vivian Welch;Lucie Brosseau;Beverley Shea

  • Health Research Funding Agencies' Support and Promotion of Knowledge Translation: An International Study

    Jacqueline M. Tetroe;Ian D. Graham;Robbie Foy;Nicole Robinson

  • School feeding for improving the physical and psychosocial health of disadvantaged students

    Betsy Kristjansson;Mark Petticrew;Barbara MacDonald;Julia Krasevec

  • Calcium-channel blockers for Raynaud's phenomenon in systemic sclerosis.

    Andrew E. Thompson;Beverley Shea;Vivian Welch;Deborah Fenlon

  • Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison.

    Larissa Shamseer;Larissa Shamseer;David Moher;David Moher;Onyi Maduekwe;Lucy Turner

  • III. Meta-Analysis of Risedronate for the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis

    Ann Cranney;Peter Tugwell;Jonathan Adachi;Bruce Weaver

  • Meta-analyses of therapies for postmenopausal osteoporosis. VIII: Meta-analysis of the efficacy of vitamin D treatment in preventing osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.

    Emmanuel Papadimitropoulos;George Wells;Beverley Shea;William Gillespie

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Tugwell
Peter Tugwell University of Ottawa
Robin Christensen
Robin Christensen University of Southern Denmark
Jasvinder A. Singh
Jasvinder A. Singh Veterans Health Administration
Lyn March
Lyn March University of Sydney
George A. Wells
George A. Wells University of Ottawa
Maarten Boers
Maarten Boers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Brian Hutton
Brian Hutton Ottawa Hospital
Annelies Boonen
Annelies Boonen Maastricht University Medical Centre
Clifton O. Bingham
Clifton O. Bingham Johns Hopkins University
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University

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