Dr Adel Elfeky PhD

Dr Adel Elfeky

School of Social Policy and Society
Senior Research Fellow in Evidence Synthesis

Contact details

Email
a.elfeky@bham.ac.uk
View my research portal
Address
Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science
Park House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Adel has nearly 10 years of experience in evidence synthesis and health services research, with particular interests in trial methodology research and Health Technology Assessment. He is a senior member of the Birmingham Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science.

Qualifications

PhD in Health Services Research, University of Aberdeen, 2020

MSc in Physiotherapy (neurorehabilitation), University of Nottingham, 2016

BSc in Physiotherapy, Misr University for Science and Technology, 2008

Biography

Adel received his first degree in physiotherapy in Egypt where he originally came from. He then moved to the UK to complete his postgraduate studies in physiotherapy and health services research. Adel started his academic career at the University of Liverpool before joining the Warwick Evidence group at the University of Warwick back in 2021 as a systematic reviewer. During this time with the group, he cemented his evidence synthesis skills and contributed to several systematic reviews and health technology assessments (HTAs) to help inform healthcare decision making including those carried out by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). He has undertaken systematic reviews and evidence syntheses on a wide range of topics including clinical effectiveness of oxygenation strategies in the perioperative period and innovative ventilation technologies in the intensive care unit.

Adel’s ongoing research interests include evidence synthesis and trial methodology research [covering assessment of risk of bias, GRADE certainty in evidence and testing strategies to improve efficiency of clinical trials and systematic reviews using Studies Within a Trial (SWAT) and Studies Within a Review (SWAR)] and methods for Indirect Treatment Comparison (ITC).

Teaching

Adel has led and taught the postgraduate module ‘Understanding Research and Critical Appraisal in Health Care’, and have supervised undergraduate students undertaking evidence synthesis projects.

Postgraduate supervision

Enquiries about potential PhD supervision related to my areas of research interests and expertise are welcome.

Research

Main areas of my recent and ongoing research include:

  • Undertaking evidence synthesis to help inform NHS decision making and applied health and social care research through West Midland Evidence Synthesis Group (WM-ESG)
  • Effectiveness of perioperative oxygen therapy in adults and children
  • Effectiveness of innovative ventilation technologies in the ICU
  • Evaluation of clinical, economic and environmental impact of single-use versus multiple-use gastrointestinal endoscopes (SuMu-Endo project)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Elfeky, A, Chen, YF, Grove, A, Hooper, A, Wilson, A, Couper, K, Thompson, M, Uthman, O, Court, R, Tomassini, S & Yeung, J 2022, 'Perioperative oxygen therapy: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses', Systematic Reviews, vol. 11, no. 1, 140. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-022-02005-3

Review article

Tyldesley-Marshall, N, Chen, Y-F, Buendia, J, Brown, A, Matthews, T, Parr, J, Chockalingam, S, Elfeky, A, Grove, A, Andronis, L, Coles, SR, Zanganeh, M, Hayee, B, Dhar, A, Sebastian, S, Arasaradnam, R & on behalf of the SUMU-Endo Project 2026, 'Diagnostic and Clinical Performance of Single-Use Versus Reusable Gastrointestinal Endoscopes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses', Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgh.70637

Boulton, AJ, Elfeky, A, Court, R, Grove, A, Wilson, A, Auguste, P, Clayton, D, Gallacher, D, Goligher, EC, MacLeod Hall, C, McAuley, DF, Perkins, GD, Scholefield, BR, Thompson, M, Yeung, J, Chen, Y-F & Couper, K 2026, 'Technology-Enhanced Strategies to Optimize Positive End-Expiratory Pressure in Patients Receiving Invasive Mechanical Ventilation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis', Critical care medicine, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1767-1778. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000007144

Elfeky, A, Boulton, A, Court, R, Grove, A, Basra, M, Clayton, D, Coverdale, G, Zulfiqar, M, MacLeod Hall, C, Auguste, P, Gallacher, D, Yeung, J, McAuley, DF, Perkins, GD, Scholefield, BR, Thompson, M, Chen, Y-F & Couper, K 2025, 'Innovative ventilation technologies used in the intensive care unit for adults and children: a scoping review [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]', NIHR Open Research, vol. 5, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.13837.1

Elfeky, A, Chen, Y-F, Grove, A, Couper, K, Court, R, Tomassini, S, Wilson, A, Hooper, A, Buckle, A, Vadeyar, S, Thompson, M, Uthman, O & Yeung, J 2025, 'Perioperative oxygen therapy: an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses', British Journal of Anaesthesia, vol. 135, no. 5, pp. 1456-1476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2025.04.020

Elfeky, A, Chen, YF, Grove, A, Couper, K, Court, R, Tomassini, S, Wilson, A, Hooper, A, Buckle, A, Vadeyar, S, Thompson, M, Uthman, O & Yeung, J 2025, 'Perioperative oxygen therapy in patients undergoing surgical procedures: an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses', Health Technology Assessment, vol. 29, no. 44. https://doi.org/10.3310/TNTC4360

View all publications in research portal