Pre-admission Hyperglycemia and Its Effect on Morbidity and Mortality

To Evaluate if Pre-admission Hyperglycemia Measured by Glycosylated Hemoglobin Level Affects the Morbidity and Mortality of Patients in a Mixed Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00871832

Enrollment

200

Registered

2009-03-30

Start date

2007-05-31

Completion date

2010-03-31

Last updated

2013-06-06

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Conditions

Hyperglycemia

Keywords

hyperglycemia, HgA1c, mortality

Brief summary

It is currently standard of care in many Medical and Surgical ICU's to institute a nurse driven insulin protocol in maintaining tight glucose control in the critical patient. Many articles have been written to address this topic. However, there is no current data regarding the use of glycohemoglobin as a marker of risk of morbidity and mortality. In our study we would like to determine whether or not the HbA1C could be used as a marker of morbidity and mortality. The HbA1C is a simple blood test that may be added on to any CBC collection tube; a blood sample that critical patients have drawn up to several times a day. The investigators would analyze this information in respect to the rest of the clinical data collected regarding the patient's illness.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* All patients admitted to the medical and surgical ICU, and CCU that are 18 year's or older and speak English that give consent.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
morbidity and mortality	at time of review	looking to see if HbA1C correlates with morbidity (i.e. sepsis, renal failure, length of stay) or death

Countries

United States

Outcome results