Eliminating inpatient sliding-scale insulin: A reeducation project with medical house staff

Diabetes Care

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1008-1011

  Baldwin, David ^a   Villanueva, Griselda ^a   McNutt, Robert ^a   Bhatnagar, Sarika ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; ISOPHANE INSULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INPATIENTS; INSULIN; INSULIN, ISOPHANE; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; STAFF DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 18144406462     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.28.5.1008     Document Type: Article

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