Sliding scale versus tight glycemic control in the noncritically ill at a community hospital

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1774-1780

  Patel, Gita Wasan ^a   Roderman, Nicki ^a   Lee, Karen A ^a   Charles, Melissa M ^a   Nguyen, Diem ^a   Beougher, Paula ^a   Kleja, Kacie ^b   Casteneda, Evangelina ^a  

^a Medical Center of Plano   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Insulin; Noncritically ill; Sliding scale

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; INSULIN ASPART; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIDING SCALE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70449732711     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1M331     Document Type: Article

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