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.