TY - JOUR T1 - Variable rate insulin infusions on medical and surgical wards: are we getting it right? JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 11 LP - 11 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s11 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Amy Coulden AU - Lloyd Rickard AU - Priya Jalota AU - Emily Austin AU - Niraj Samani AU - Brighid Lane AU - Deborah Dawson AU - Lesley Peters AU - Sofia Salahuddin AU - Sandip Ghosh Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_1/11.abstract N2 - A quality improvement project undertaken at University Hospital Birmingham to improve the management of patients on variable rate intravenous insulin infusions (VRIII) to allow a consistent standard of care in keeping with Joint British Diabetes Societies guidelines.An initial baseline of data was identified from the database; any episode where a patient was started on a VRIII over a 10-week period from 1 September to 10 November 2016. ITU patients and those on a scale for less than 1 hour were excluded. … ER -