The Melbourne Declaration on Diabetes

Diabetes--a declaration for the Americas.

Implementation salvage experiences from the Melbourne diabetes prevention study

BACKGROUND Many public health interventions based on apparently sound evidence from randomised controlled trials encounter difficulties when being scaled up within health systems. Even under the best of circumstances, implementation is exceedingly difficult. In this paper we will describe the implementation salvage experiences from the Melbourne Diabetes Prevention Study, which is a randomised ...

Promoting research for better diabetes care in Asia: Kyoto declaration on diabetes

The Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes (AASD) holds an annual academic meeting in a different Asian city each year. In November 2012, the AASD held the 4th Scientific Meeting jointly with the 9th International Diabetes Federation-Western Pacific Region (IDF-WPR) Congress in Kyoto, Japan. The registration was 4,081 persons from 43 countries (Japan 2,551 and overseas 1,530). They unanimo...

The high burden of inpatient diabetes mellitus: the Melbourne Public Hospitals Diabetes Inpatient Audit.

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of diabetes in inpatients in Melbourne hospitals. DESIGN Point prevalence survey of all inpatients in each hospital on a single day between 30 November 2010 and 22 November 2012. SETTING 11 hospitals in metropolitan Melbourne including community, secondary and tertiary hospitals and one aged care and rehabilitation centre. PARTICIPANTS 2308 adult inpa...

The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature was agreed at an international symposium convened in Amsterdam on 19-20 April 2011 under the auspices of the International Commission on the Taxonomy of Fungi (ICTF). The purpose of the symposium was to address the issue of whether or how the current system of naming pleomorphic fungi should be maintained or changed now that molecular data are ro...