The reduction of hypoglycemia among inpatients through a multidisciplinary team work using a PDCA approach
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Background Hypoglycemia is associated with transient cognitive deficits and can result in cardiac arrhythmia, neurological damage, falls or aspiration. Among critical and noncritical inpatients, hypoglycemia increases the risk of death. Since 2012, we had kept the rate of hypoglycemia (proportion of capillary glucose episodes bellow 60 mg/dL per 100 glucose measurements) well controlled. During the first 3 months of 2014 we were aiming to keep the rate under 0,46%. However, there was an average of 149 episodes/month, which was equivalent to the rate of 0,57%.
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