NHS Blood and Transplant

Ethical guidance for randomized controlled trials of donor interventions in deceased organ donation: a scoping review of international guidelines, consensus statements, and expert recommendations

Deceased donor interventions are nontherapeutic interventions to improve the likelihood of successful donation and transplant outcomes. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) could strengthen the evidence base for donor interventions, but such trials face difficult ethical challenge...

Survival benefit of deceased donor kidney transplantation versus continued dialysis: international target trial emulation

Abstract Objective To quantify the survival benefit of deceased donor kidney transplantation versus continued dialysis according to patients’ characteristics (age, diabetes, cardiovascular disease), donor quality (standard criteria donor or expanded criteria donor) and donor retr...

Iron deficiency testing among people with incident heart failure in primary care

Background Given around 50% of people with heart failure have a degree of iron deficiency, guidelines recommend screening. It is uncertain to what extent this is done in primary care and whether testing is equitable. Aim To report the proportion of people with incident heart fail...