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 […]
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 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.
The new Centre for Evidence in Transplantation website has now gone live at www.transplantevidence.com. The new site has been completely redesigned with a fresh new interface and more information on current projects, staff and publications. If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact Simon Knight by e-mail.