Endocrine Abstracts

Patients with diabetes represent 15-20% of the total adult population in UK hospitals. Insulin is now recognised as the drug with the highest number of prescribing errors in the NHS. In order to determine insulin-related glycaemic morbidity we reviewed a random representative sample of 50 insulin prescription and administration records (25 medical and 25 surgical)over a 4 week period (11 T1DM, 39 T2DM) Initially we audited the legality of the prescriptions against well-describ...