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 […]