We would like to invite ESOT members to come and visit us at the ESOT congress in Glasgow from Sunday 4th September to Wednesday 6th September. We will have a stand in the ESOT Village in the SECC where you can come and chat to us and learn more about what we do and how […]
Here at the CET we have created a new guide to searching the Transplant Library. The guide is in PDF format, and can be downloaded here. If you are not familiar, the library is a joint project between the CET and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins/Ovid (Wolters Kluwer Health). The aim of the library is to […]
The Transplant Trial Watch (TTW) provides a montly overview of 10 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in organ transplantation that were added to the Transplant Library in the past month including RCTs that are published online only ahead of print. From this month we have added some more information about each selected RCT. The TTW now includes […]
At the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation (CET) we have been rating the methodological quality of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published since 2004. The quality score is a composite score assessing allocation concealment, intention to treat (ITT) analysis and the Jadad scale which comprises items on the adequate description of randomisation, double blinding and withdrawals. […]
The MRC centre for transplantation are running a 2 day course entitled “Frontiers in Transplantation: Clinical Excellence Through Innovation” in London on the 8-9 September 2011. This two-day course is for Medical and Surgical trainees, Transplant Physicians, Surgeons or nurses, allied health professionals and scientists interested in translational transplantation biology. The course will cover recent developments […]
I read with some interest a case series in this month’s AJT from a group in India, reporting an initial experience of laparoscopic kidney transplantation (AJT 2011; 11: 1320). Modi and colleagues provide the rationale that transplant patients are at increased risk of wound related complications (due to renal failure and immunosuppression) and so a […]
Last month, an interesting article in Transplantation by Blosser et al. (Transplantation 91(8):858) explored the issue of generalisability of clinical trials to patients outside of the clinical trial setting. The authors identified 573 randomised clinical trials (RCTs) in kidney transplant recipients in the period between 1999 and 2008, and found that 30% had an exclusion […]
In the world of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), a number of initiatives have existed for some time to attempt to improve methodological quality and reporting. Amongst the most important of these have been the CONSORT statement for the reporting of RCTs, and initiatives for the prospective registration of clinical trials such as the ISRCTN. More […]
The third Evidence in Transplantation (EVIT) course in collaboration with ESOT was held in London on the 18th-19th March 2011. Participants came from all over Europe and further afield to listen to lectures and take part in workshops on trial design and appraisal, literature searching and systematic review. There was a great level of interaction […]
Oxford University Libraries have named the Transplant Library database of the month. The Transplant Library is a searcheable library of all RCTs published in the field of transplantation, along with selected systematic reviews, maintained by the staff here at the CET. For more information, visit the transplant library page.