Project Details
Pancreatitis is the most common disorder of the exocrine pancreas and results in high morbidity and mortality. Currently clinical severity is subjective and any score systems have not been validated in independent cohorts meaning that they are poorly predictive of patient outcome or true disease severity.
The specific aim of the project will be to further investigate performance of various clinical scoring systems in companion animals with pancreatitis via retrospective assessment of data from multiple institutions.
Additional retrospective studies may be available for contribution depending on timeline
No specific skills are required, but interest in small animal internal medicine or emergency and critical care will be beneficial. As this is part of a retrospective study critical thinking, autonomy, and data collection skills will be emphasized throughout the research period. No benchtop work or patient experiments will occur as a part of this project.
The student(s) will be supervised and mentored by Dr. Cridge.
