Search Tag: Mayo Clinic

2017 09 May

The degree of in-hospital hyperglycaemia in acute and critically ill patients increases susceptibility to new-onset diabetes after hospitalisation, according to a systematic review published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.   "We found a stepwise increase in the prevalence of new-onset diabetes, with 28 percent of patients with severe hyperglycaemia developing...Read more

2017 11 Apr

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed an algorithm for sepsis detection based on the new Sepsis-3 definition. Their near real-time automated Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scoring has strong agreement with manual score calculation and may be useful for the detection of sepsis utilising the new Sepsis-3 definition. The study will appear...Read more

2014 10 Nov

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville, FA, USA) have found that the use of two new oral medications is effective in fighting hepatitis C infection amongst liver transplant patients. Given the clinical importance of the study, results have been presented in a plenary session of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (The Liver...Read more