AACE/ADA Consensus Statement AMERICAN AssOCIATION Of ClINICAl ENDOCRINOlOgIsTs AND AMERICAN DIAbETEs AssOCIATION CONsENsUs sTATEMENT ON INPATIENT glYCEMIC CONTROl

This report is being published concurrently in 2009 in Endocrine Practice and Diabetes Care by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American Diabetes Association. From the 1Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 2Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 3Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health Center and University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing PhD Program, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 4Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute, La Jolla, California, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, and Diabetes and Endocrine Associates, La Jolla, California, 5Department of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and Hellman and Rosen Endocrine Associates, North Kansas City, Missouri, 6Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, 7Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine and the Yale Diabetes Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, 8Department of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, Division of Clinical and Molecular Endocrinology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 9Clinical Affairs, American Diabetes Association, Alexandria, Virginia, and 10Department of Medicine/Endocrinology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Etie S. Moghissi, 4644 Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 409, Marina del Rey, CA 90292. © 2009 by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American Diabetes Association. Abbreviations: AACE = American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists; ACE = American College of Endocrinology; ADA = American Diabetes Association; AMI = acute myocardial infarction; BG = blood glucose; DIGAMI = Diabetes and InsulinGlucose Infusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction; ICUs = intensive care units; IV = intravenous; LOS = length of stay; NICE-SUGAR = Normoglycemia in Intensive Care Evaluation—Survival Using Glucose Algorithm Regulation; POC = point-of-care; RCTs = randomized controlled trials; SSI = sliding scale insulin INTRODUCTION