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

Table 3 Effect modification analysis between June to August 2013 and June to August 2016

	June to August 2013 N = 3201^a	June to August 2016 N = 3022^a	Effect measures^b (95% CI)	P-value
Patient-days	20,277	17,183
Patient-days with any glucose > 14 mmol/L, n (%)
Medical ward	5155 (25.4)	4023 (23.4)	0.79 (0.65 to 0.95)	0.012
Surgical ward	508 (2.5)	535 (3.1)	1.41 (1.01 to 1.97)	0.046

^aNumber of admissions to medical and surgical wards was reported for each time period and it constituted about 97% of total admissions for both time periods
^bThe associations between glucometrics and the time periods were fully adjusted with respect to the implementing phase, age, gender, ethnicity groups, emergency admission, type of ward, and illness severity status, using logistic regression with Generalized Estimation Equations

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