Eliminating Inpatient Sliding-Scale Insulin: A Reeducation Project With Medical House Staff
Response to Rizvi
- David Baldwin, MD,
- Griselda Villanueva, ND,
- Robert McNutt, MD and
- Sarika Bhatnagar, 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 Dr. Rizvi (1) for his comments about our study (2). Unfortunately, due to space constraints, we were not able to include all of the details for insulin initiation and titration in the main body of the article. As indicated in the fifth paragraph of the research design and methods section, these details are contained in an online appendix for the article (available at http://care.diabetesjournals.org). We did not measure 2-h postprandial blood glucoses nor use any insulin-to-carbohydrate ratios …
