Patients
We searched our facility’s EMR database in order to identify all adult
patients hospitalized in our facility between January 1, 2017 through
December 31, 2018 and found that 47,093 inpatients (99.5% of total
adult inpatients) who had been admitted were tested for blood glucose
levels. The study did not include transplant patients. There were 12,292
inpatients (26.1%) who experienced hyperglycemia > 7.8
mmol/L and 1,175 inpatients (2.5%) that experienced hypoglycemia
< 3 mmol/L. Their demographic data, diagnosis, treatment, and
laboratory test were analyzed.