Endocrine Abstracts

The in-hospital pharmacological management of patients with diabetes has recently been identified by the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit as a key safety issue. Over 30% of inpatient drug charts surveyed in the 2013 audit had at least 1 diabetes medication error in the preceding week. Patients with a diabetes medication error on their drug chart were also twice as likely to have one or more hypoglycaemic episodes during their hospital stay.A paper by Br...