Abstract
NHS Tayside, UK, identified risks with subcutaneous insulin therapy for hospital in-patients: overlooked abnormal blood glucose readings; prescription errors and failure to administer insulin. Involvement in the Safer Patients Initiative provided opportunities to use different methods of quality improvement, to create a process that facilitated prevention, detection and mitigation of diabetes management problems for in-patients requiring subcutaneous insulin therapy. The aim was to explain these methods, their use and results obtained.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 960-967 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Diabetic Medicine |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- Adult
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Hospitalization
- Hospitals
- Humans
- Hypoglycemic Agents
- Injections, Subcutaneous
- Insulin
- Medical Records
- Quality of Health Care
- Risk Assessment