Addressing Inpatient Glycaemic Control with an Inpatient Glucometry Alert System

Table 1

Summary statistics for pre- and postimplementation periods.

Period	Preimplementation	Postimplementation	(α = 0.05)
Date range (number of days)	10-02-2014 to 10-04-2014 (60)	11-04-2014 to 09-06-2014 (60)	—
Mean POC-BG value (mmol/L)	9.13 ± 4.57 (1.00–33.30)	9.09 ± 4.47 (0.80–33.30)	0.315
Mean patient-day POC-BG value (mmol/L)	8.22 ± 3.40 (1.80–28.40)	8.09 ± 3.20 (2.80–33.30)	0.010
Number of POC-BG readings	13992	14249	0.237
Number of patient-days with POC-BG readings	5984	5741	0.316
Number of patients with POC-BG readings	816	752	0.186