Saturday, February 11, 2012

HACs and "manifestations of poor glycemic control"

Years ago, I was sometimes frustrated to see that hospitals made occasional medication errors involving insulin and diabetes pills, but the errors got swept under the rug. For instance, if a patient got 100 times as much insulin as they should, due to sloppy physician handwriting in the orders, or t...
10/ 3/08 4:19pm

Even better is the indirect incentive for better sugar control- through non-reimbursement of nosocomial infection treatment.  That is, since there is growing research that hyperglycemia suppresses immune function and may lead to a new infection being acquired, hospitals will now have more intensive protocols to control patients' blood sugar in-house.  The old days of 'the sugar is high?- oh well, they're diabetic' won't fly anymore.

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