Favi, Evaldo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6465-428X
James, Ajith
Puliatti, Carmelo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7398-2648
Whatling, Phil
Ferraresso, Mariano http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-9090
Rui, Chiara
Cacciola, Roberto http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8363-1358
Article History
Received: 23 April 2019
Accepted: 12 November 2019
First Online: 25 November 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Treatments and procedures described in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee at which it was conducted and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. At the time the study was designed, it was formally discussed in a regular Multidisciplinary Research Meeting at the Royal London Hospital (London, UK) and the consensus was that Institutional Review Board approval was not necessary because it was retrospective and non-interventional. All participants were consented for both treatment and research purpose at the time of activation on the National Kidney Transplant Waiting List as per National Health Service Blood and Transplant (NHS-BT). According to Barts Health NHS Trust General Data Protection Act, General Data Protection and Regulation 2016, and Data Protection Act 2018, all subject enrolled into the study were already aware that their anonymized data including viral status as well as other biomedical parameters would have been used for research purpose. Patients who did not want their personal information to be used for planning or research were given the possibility to express their preference under National Data Opt-Out Programme.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.