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Preventing Hypoglycemia

NCT01923688 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 390

Last updated 2014-06-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the project is to improve in-patient safety by lowering the risk of severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) for patients with diabetes on insulin therapy and to improve communication between healthcare providers.

The procedures of the study are:

* the hospital patient information system \[Pharmacy Event System,(PES)\] will generate for healthcare providers a real-time risk alert of severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
* the real-time PES risk alert will be sent via a beeper to the patient's charge nurse
* the charge nurse will follow the specific guidelines in the alert for assessment of the patient's care and insulin regimen
* the charge nurse will then notify the physician of the patient's assessment and of the recommendation for change/no change in insulin regimen and/or clinical care
* the alerted charge nurse and physician will complete a collaboration scale

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Informatics Alert/Nurse/physician responders

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Washington University School of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Garry Tobin, MD · Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

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