AUTHOR=Cillo Umberto , Weissenbacher Annemarie , Pengel Liset , Jochmans Ina , Roppolo Daniele , Amarelli Cristiano , Belli Luca S. , Berenguer Marina , De Vries Aiko , Ferrer Joana , Friedewald John , Furian Lucrezia , Greenwood Sharlene , Monbaliu Diethard , Nadalin Silvio , Neyrinck Arne , Strazzabosco Mario , Toso Christian , Zaza Gianluigi , Thuraisingham Raj , Berney Thierry , Potena Luciano , Montserrat Nuria , Selzner Nazia TITLE=ESOT Consensus Platform for Organ Transplantation: Setting the Stage for a Rigorous, Regularly Updated Development Process JOURNAL=Transplant International VOLUME=35 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/transplant-international/articles/10.3389/ti.2022.10915 DOI=10.3389/ti.2022.10915 ISSN=1432-2277 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.