Feasibility and safety of multiple daily insulin injections in general medicine wards

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 435-439

  Buchs, Andreas E ^a   Bloemers, Renske ^a   Shiloah, Eli ^a   Horowitz, Moshe ^a   Aminov, Soffie ^a   Ramot, Yoram ^a   Rapoport, Micha J ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Glucose control; Hospitalization; Multiple insulin injections

Indexed keywords

INSULIN ASPART; INSULIN GLARGINE; INSULIN LISPRO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FASTING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INSULIN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTPRANDIAL PERIOD;

EID: 67349287881     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2008.12.010     Document Type: Article

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