Barriers to the Implementation of Complete Insulin Order Sets

HealthPartners Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hyperglycemia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00813280

03735-08-A

Details and patient eligibility

About

The major purpose of this Quality Improvement project is to begin to address the issues surrounding glycemic control in the hospital setting by collecting accurate, reliable and verifiable data on the occurrence of hyperglycemia (BG >300 mg/dL), and whether or not CIO is used (immediately before and 72 hours after the BG >300 mg/dl).

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital patient
• recorded BG > 300 mg/dL during the study data collection period
• admitted to general floor hospital units

Exclusion criteria

• birth center
• intensive care units
• eating disorder unit
• pediatric patients < 18 years of age
• patients receiving insulin infusions

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

hyperglycemia

Description:

hospitalized patients with BG \>300 ml/dL