Evaluating the effectiveness of a multi-faceted inpatient diabetes management program among hospitalised patients with diabetes mellitus

Table 1 Profiles of admissions during June to August 2013 compared against June to August 2016

	June to August 2013	June to August 2016	P-value^a
Admissions	3315	3130
DEMOGRAPHIC
Age (in years), mean (SD)	67.6 (13.7)	66.4 (13.5)	0.01
Male, n (%)	1785 (53.9)	1678 (53.6)	0.861
Ethnicity, n (%)
Chinese	1878 (56.8)	1840 (58.8)	0.359
Indian	477 (14.4)	425 (13.6)
Malay	675 (20.4)	600 (19.2)
Others	285 (8.6)	265 (8.5)
ADMISSION CHARACTERISTICS
Admissions to, n (%)
Medical wards	2776 (83.7)	2549 (81.4)	0.029
Surgical wards	425 (12.8)	473 (15.1)
Others^b	114 (3.4)	108 (3.45)
Admission via emergency, n (%)	2238 (67.5)	2214 (70.7)	0.005
With more severe illness, n (%)^c	2999 (90.5)	2633 (84.1)	< 0.001
INFORMATION USED TO IDENTIFY ADMISSIONS WITH DM
DM medications was prescribed, n (%)	2931 (88.4)	2851 (91.1)	< 0.001
Any capillary blood glucose reading > 11.1 mmol/L, n (%)	2849 (85.9)	2557 (81.7)	< 0.001
Any HbA1c > 6.5% or 48 mmol/L, n (%)	869 (26.2)	531 (17.0)	< 0.001

^aFor age, Student’s t-test was performed to obtain the p-value. For the rest of the variables, Fisher’s exact test was performed to obtain the p-values
^bOthers include patients who were transferred across types of wards during admission, or admitted to a non-medical and non-surgical ward
^cAn admission was considered as being more severe if the patient had any of the following laboratory tests performed during the hospital stay, albumin, creatinine, C - reactive protein, white blood cells, and troponin I

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