TY - JOUR T1 - Evaluating the launch of live electronic access to point-of-care blood glucose monitoring to reduce the prevalence of inpatient hypoglycaemia at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - s17 LP - s18 DO - 10.7861/fhj.7.1.s17 VL - 7 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Adeeba Ahmed AU - Elizabeth Morley AU - Farah Abdel Hameed AU - Gayle Reynolds AU - Michele Colloby AU - Catherine Holmes AU - Andrew Woodburn Drayton AU - Natasha Jacques AU - Ali Bahron AU - Sudarshan Ramachandran Y1 - 2020/02/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/Suppl_1/s17.abstract N2 - Hypoglycaemia is a serious complication of diabetes, increasing risk of morbidity, mortality and length of stay. Live point-of-care (POCT) blood glucose monitoring provides a graphical–visual comparison of glucose control. Successive national diabetes inpatient audits have shown a significant level of mild and moderate hypoglycaemia for inpatients with diabetes in our hospitals, on par with other hospital trusts nationally. Many of these hospital trusts already have live point-of-care blood glucose connectivity, and we were keen to ensure that our switch was linked to a sustained reduction in patient harm from hypoglycaemia. Therefore, we planned to link the launch to a full communication … ER -