ESOT-CET Collaboration

The Centre for Evidence in Transplantation and the European Society for Organ Transplantation have initiated a collaboration and have agreed that the CET would become the Knowledge Centre for ESOT with a special emphasis on helping with the design and reporting of randomised controlled trials in Europe.

Aim

The aim of the collaboration is several fold but one major project is to improve the methodological quality of European transplantation trials by advising investigators in the early stages of trial design and planning. An analysis of all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in organ transplantation between 2004 and 2006 (Transplant International - in press) has shown that only around one third of trials were of good methodological quality. This detracts from the value of the evidence provided by these poor RCTs.

What we do

• Provide help with trial design and methodology
• Provide help with the reporting of trials
• Provide assistance in searching the literature

Who is it for

This free service is available to ESOT members or any residents of Europe.

Submit a trial protocol for review by CET

To receive help with the design of a randomized controlled trial you can submit your protocol .

Please download the guidelines for submission of protocols before you submit your protocol. Once the protocol is approved it will receive ESOT-CET accreditation and will be added to the ESOT-CET trial registry that is being developed.

More information

For more information about the collaboration go to European Society for Organ Transplantation or contact the CET for any other queries.