Improving Outcomes for Diabetic Patients Undergoing Vascular Surgery
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Improving Outcomes for Diabetic Patients Undergoing Vascular Surgery
Improving management of inpatients with diabetes undergoing vascular surgery requires collaboration among many health care practitioners. This article describes a performance improvement project that implemented two evidence-based algorithmic order sets to guide perioperative glucose management for diabetic patients undergoing vascular procedures and utilized a certified diabetes educator (CDE)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes Spectrum
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1040-9165,1040-9165
DOI: 10.2337/diaspect.18.1.53