A replicable method for blood glucose control in critically Ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1787-1795

  Morris, Alan H ^a   Orme, James ^a   Truwit, Jonathon D ^b   Steingrub, Jay ^c   Grissom, Colin ^a   Lee, Kang H ^d   Li, Guoliang L ^d   Thompson, B Taylor ^e   Brower, Roy ^f   Tidswell, Mark ^c   Bernard, Gordon R ^g   Sorenson, Dean ^a   Sward, Katherine ^h   Zheng, Hui ^e   Schoenfeld, David ^e   Warner, Homer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood glucose; Clinical; Clinical protocols; Decision support systems; Human; Insulin; Research

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFUSION RATE; INSULIN INFUSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADULT; APACHE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDICAL RECORD; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CRITICAL CARE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INSULIN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45149133258     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181743a5a     Document Type: Article

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