Daily Archives: August 29, 2008

Mayo Clinic Researchers Develop Improved Tool to Rank Sickest Patients Waiting for Liver Transplants

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an improved statistical model that could help ensure that the sickest patients receive liver transplants first.
Researchers found that including serum sodium concentration in the statistical model now used could reduce by 7 percent the number of patients (as many as 50 people) who die each year while waiting for a [...]