ESOT Consensus Platform for Organ Transplantation: Setting the Stage for a Rigorous, Regularly Updated Development Process
Umberto Cillo, Annemarie Weißenbacher, Liset Pengel, Ina Jochmans, Daniele Roppolo, Cristiano Amarelli, L Belli, Marina Berenguer, Aiko P. J. de Vries, Joana Ferrer, John J. Friedewald, Lucrezia Furian, Sharlene A. Greenwood, Diethard Monbaliu, Silvio Nadalin, Arne Neyrinck, Mario Strazzabosco, Christian Toso, Gianluigi Zaza, Raj Thuraisingham, Thierry Berney, Luciano Potena, Núria Montserrat, Nazia Selzner
Abstract
The European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) has created a platform for the development of rigorous and regularly updated evidence based guidelines for clinical practice in the transplantation field. A dedicated Guideline Taskforce, including ESOT-council members, a representative from the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation, editors of the journal Transplant International has developed transparent procedures to guide the development of guidelines, recommendations, and consensus statements. During ESOT's first Consensus Conference in November 2022, leading experts will present in-depth evidence based reviews of nine themes and will propose recommendations aimed at reaching a consensus after public discussion and assessment by an independent jury. All recommendations and consensus statements produced for the nine selected topics will be published including the entire evidence-based consensus-finding process. An extensive literature review of each topic was conducted to provide final evidence and/or expert opinion.