The CET team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! A new year means that this month’s Transplant Trial Watch is now out. New studies include a systematic review of outcomes in obese kidney transplant recipients, CNI and steroid-free immunosuppression in renal transplantation, and a direct mail campaign to improve donor registration.
Do you want to increase your skills in evidence-based decision-making? Attend the “Evidence in Transplantation (EVIT) course”, which is held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 8-9 April, 2016 and jointly organised by ESOT and the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation. This interactive course covers clinical research methods, including clinical trial design and […]
The December 2015 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available online. This month’s trials include the first RCT of robotic donor nephrectomy, Belatacept in Liver Transplantation and tPA for DCD kidney donors. Why not download our app for iPhone, iPad and Android?
The October 2015 edition of the Transplant Trial watch is now available online and via the Trial Watch app. This month, new studies include long-term outcomes of sirolimus-based immunosuppression in renal transplant recipients, remote ischaemic preconditioning and therapeutic hypothermia in organ donors.
The July edition of the transplant trial watch is now available on our website and via the app for iPhone, iPad and Android. This months trials include computer-guided tacrolimus dosing, radial versus femoral cannulation for cardiac transplantation and Sorafenib in liver transplant candidates with HCC.
The programme for the Evidence in Transplantation (EVIT) course has been finalised and now includes the following statistical session: ” An introduction to statistics for evidence appraisal” • Reviewing outcome measures, common measures of association and intervention effects • Interpreting p-values and confidence intervals The workshop will be given by Dr Susan Charman, lecturer in […]
The deadline for ESOT’s “Hepatologist and Nephrologist in a Transplant Program (HNTP)” course is September 30. The HNTP course is an advanced ESOT course for physicians with a strong career interest in Transplantation The educational objectives are: To meet the experts on Transplant Medicine To obtain specific knowledge and skills on medical aspects of Liver […]