Transplant Library

This is a joint project between the CET and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins/Ovid (Wolters Kluwer Health). The aim of the library, is to provide high quality, evidence-based information, namely RCT's, on all of aspects of solid organ transplantation for the transplantation community. The library has been developed by the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation (CET) and will serve as an easily searched resource for clinicians, researchers and other related health professionals. The library contains records of:

• randomised controlled trials (RCTs), from 1970 to present. There are some 6500 references in the library. RCTs published from 2004 onwards will include a quality rating based on a Jadad score, 0-5 plus a score on two additional methodological items namely allocation concealment and intention to treat.
• the library is updated every 2 weeks.
• references to good quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses from 2008 are now in the library.

The database also contains non-indexed literature such as congress abstracts and these comprise just over 3,000 references.

The Library is now available through the Transplantation Journal web page to subscribers.

It is also now available to members of the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT) and also to Medical School Libraries in England.

References

Barcena L, Pengel L, Morris PJ. Searching the transplantation library. Transplantation. 2008 Apr 27;85(8):1068-74.