A proactive Inpatient Diabetes Service to improve diabetes care in hospitalised patients.
Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
- Conditions
- DiabetesMetabolic and Endocrine - Diabetes
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12616000265471
- Lead Sponsor
- Royal Melbourne Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1200
Inclusion Criteria
Consecutive inpatients with
1) Known diabetes OR
2) New hyperglycaemia without known diabetes (fasting BGL > 7.0 mmol/L or random BGL > 11.1 mmol/L)
that are admitted to the 8 participating wards at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients admitted under the diabetes and endocrinology team as the treating team.
Patients admitted under palliative care team
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Adverse glycaemic days (defined as any patient-day with BGL < 4.0 mmol/L or > 15.0 mmol/L) as a proportion of all patient-days.<br><br>(BGL values will be collected from point-of-care tests performed on connectivity blood glucose meters)[During hospitalisation]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method