Increased Hyperglycemia and Hospital-Acquired Infections Following Withdrawal of the RAPIDS Early Intervention Model of Diabetes Care in Medical and Surgical Inpatients.

The article discusses the Randomized Study of a Proactive Inpatient Diabetes Service-extension observational study to assess glycemic and clinical outcomes after cessation of early intervention care. Highlights include the use of point-of-care capillary blood glucose measurements for each patient to analyze glucometric outcomes, comparison between hyperglycemia and hospital-acquired infection incidence, and reductions in hyperglycemic extremes associated with improved clinical outcomes.