Endocrine Abstracts

Hypoglycaemia in hospitalised patients with Diabetes is common, confers higher morbidity/mortality, prolongs length-of-stay and increases re-admission rates. Previous audit identified adequate initial treatment of hypoglycaemia but poor subsequent management risking recurrent episodes. In March 2023, insulin prescribing moved from paper-based to an electronic medicines management process in line with other medication prescriptions in our institution. An alert for electronic pr...

Background: Insulin is a high-risk medicine that was involved in just under 20% of all medication safety events causing harm following a local audit that reviewed data over a 2.5 year period. Insulin was one of the only licensed medicine remaining that was managed via a paper process in inpatient areas at St James’s Hospital as it was excluded from the initial implementation of electronic medicines management processes due to the significant amount of additional design fe...