Use of serum and plasma glucose measurements as a benchmark for improved hospital-wide glycemic control

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 556-563

  Hoofnagle, Andrew N ^a   Peterson, Gene N ^a   Kelly, Janet L ^a   Sayre, Cindy A ^a   Chou, David ^a   Hirsch, Irl B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERGLYCEMIC INDEX; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; HOSPITAL; PLASMA; SERUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; PLASMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149469609     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.14.5.556     Document Type: Article

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