The deadline to register for the Evidence in Transplantation (EVIT) course has been extended and you can now apply for one of the last few places of this highly rated course. EVIT last call The EVIT course is organised in collaboration with ESOT and will run on 21 and 22 March 2014 at the Royal College […]
The deadline is approaching for the 2014 Evidence in Transplantation (EVIT) course, run by the CET and ESOT. Applications must be in by the 30th January 2014. The course will run on the 21st and 22nd March 2014 at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, UK. The two-day course is aimed at professionals from […]
I was very amused (and slightly horrified) by the Cochrane Hepato-Biliary group’s most recent offering regarding surgical resection versus liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma. The 22-page review details elegantly the background to the review, gives an in depth search strategy and description of excluded studies and then concludes: “There are no randomised clinical trials comparing […]
A group from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China has recently published a systematic review comparing the outcomes in patients receiving kidneys from donation after cardiac death (DCD). Deng et al conducted a meta-analysis using the results from four randomised controlled trials (351 kidneys). Machine perfusion reduced the rate of delayed graft function compared to static […]
You can now register for the EVIT course which will be held on 22nd and 23rd February 2013. The EVIT course, organised in collaboration with the European Society of Organ Transplantation, is a two-day course aimed at young professionals actively involved in organ and tissue transplantation who want to increase their skills in evidence-based decision-making. […]
Philip Macklin was awarded an MSc in Surgical Sciences jointly from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons in June of this year, with distinction. Working under the supervision of the CET, his dissertation was entitled “A Systematic Review of the Use of Rituximab in Renal Transplantation”. He is now preparing manuscripts […]
The next Evidence in Transplantation Course (EVIT) will be held in London on March 16-17. The joint CET and ESOT course, now in it’s fourth year, have received excellent reviews from past participants, and aims to increase skills in evidence-based decision making. It includes sessions on clinical trial design and interpretation, literature searching, literature appraisal, […]
We have recently completed a systematic review of preservation solutions for the static cold storage of kidney allografts (this was presented at the recent ESOT meeting and has been accepted for publication subject to satisfactory revision). We used MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library and the Transplant Library to perform the literature search. Searches combined MeSH […]
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 […]