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SUMMARY:Registry Studies in Organ Donation and Transplantation - Professor
  Dave Collett\, Associate Director of Statistics and Clinical Studies\, Di
 rector of NHSBT Clinical Trials Unit
DTSTART:20160113T130000Z
DTEND:20160113T140000Z
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CONTACT:Beth Collins
DESCRIPTION:Much of the evidence used to inform the development of organ t
 ransplantation in the UK comes from analyses of observational data that ma
 ke up a centrally maintained registry. After a brief overview of the UK Tr
 ansplant Registry\, maintained by NHS Blood and Transplant\, the use of th
 is Registry in the development of a new liver allocation scheme will be de
 scribed and illustrated.  The talk will cover the formulation of an alloca
 tion scheme based on transplant benefit\, the need to adjust survival mode
 ls that underpin the scheme to account for informative censoring\, and the
  relative merits of new allocation arrangements.  The use of updated marke
 r data on disease severity\, and the development of an index of the qualit
 y of a donated liver will also be described. 
LOCATION:Thomas Strangeways Room\, Strangeways Research Laboratory
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