With the advanced management of diabetes and new innovative anti-hyperglycemic therapy hyperglycemia remains a culprit factor affecting the outcome of patients admitted to the hospital in general wards. Efforts from health care providers to assess and control blood sugar by a simplified method such as certified point of care hand-sized glucometers is the fruitful protocol if the results near the target that is endorsed by well-known diabetes societies. In non-critically patients the premeal blood sugar ≤140 mg /dl and ≤ 180 mg /dl after a meal. The unstable economy and political crises with the pandemic of Covid-19 making us use a glucometer to monitor and control the fluctuation of blood sugar in order to decrease the burden on the patients and health care providers in the form of a stay in the hospital and minimize wasting laboratory resources.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
120
AlFayhaa Teaching hospital
Basra, Iraq
glycemic control
percentage of patients with glucose measurement (Random Blood Sugar, RBS, Fasting Blood Sugar, FBS) between 140-180 measured with bedside glucometers preferably before meals and at 6 am for fasting blood sugars or as directed by the physician
Time frame: From hospital admission to hospital discharge for a median of 7 days and up to 1 month
average blood glucose value per ward
average blood glucose value per ward (medical vs. surgical vs ICU/CCU
Time frame: From hospital admission to hospital discharge for a median of 7 days and up to 1 month
average per patient
average blood glucose levels per patient
Time frame: From hospital admission to hospital discharge for a median of 7 days and up to 1 month
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