Relationship between glycemic control and readmission in patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure during implementation of hospital-wide initiatives

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 945-951

  Dungan, Kathleen M ^a   Osei, Kwame ^a   Nagaraja, Haikady N ^a   Schuster, Dara P ^a   Binkley, Philip ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; GLYCEMIC LABILITY INDEX; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL POLICY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITAL WIDE INITIATIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME WEIGHTED MEAN GLUCOSE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION;

EID: 79952431953     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP10093.OR     Document Type: Article

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