María Asunción Martínez-Brocca, Cristóbal Morales, Pilar Rodríguez-Ortega, Beatriz González-Aguilera, Cristina Montes, Natalia Colomo, Gonzalo Piédrola, Mariola Méndez-Muros, Isabel Serrano, Maria Soledad Ruiz de Adana, Alberto Moreno, Ignacio Fernández, Manuel Aguilar, Domingo Acosta, Rafael Palomares
INTRODUCTION: In 2009, the Andalusian Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition designed a protocol for subcutaneous insulin treatment in hospitalized non-critically ill patients (HIP). OBJECTIVE: To analyze implementation of HIP at tertiary care hospitals from the Andalusian Public Health System. METHOD: A descriptive, multicenter study conducted in 8 tertiary care hospitals on a random sample of non-critically ill patients with diabetes/hyperglycemia (n=306) hospitalized for ≥48 hours in 5 non-surgical (SM) and 2 surgical (SQ) departments...
February 2015: Endocrinología y Nutrición: órgano de la Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición