Eliminating Inpatient Sliding-Scale Insulin: A Reeducation Project With Medical House Staff
Response to Peterson et al.
- David Baldwin, MD,
- Griselda Villanueva, ND and
- Robert McNutt, MD
- From the Section of Endocrinology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
- Address correspondence to David Baldwin, MD, Section of Endocrinology, Rush University Medical Center, Suite 250, 1725 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60612. E-mail: david_baldwin{at}rush.edu
We thank Peterson, Charney, and Rennert (1) for their interest in our study (2). We share and applaud their interest in improving the level of house staff education for inpatient diabetes management. When we began our program 3 years ago, all inpatients received sliding-scale regular insulin and perpetual hyperglycemia was the rule. We felt that most of our 1st year residents did not know how to manage inpatient hyperglycemia, thus the …
