Effectiveness and Safety of an Electronic Medical Record-Integrated Glucose Management System for Inpatient Diabetes Care: A Randomized Controlled Trial (FEMH-eGMS)

Both inpatient hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia increase the adverse effects of ordinary ward patients, including mortality rate, so the American Diabetes Association recommends that the blood glucose target for inpatients is 140 to 180 mg/dL. Previous studies found that the use of electronic glucose management system (eGMS) could increase the achievement of the goal. Currently, there are several eGMS on the market, such as Glucommander（Glytec，Greenville，SC）、EndoTool System（MD Scientific LLC，Charlotte，NC） and GlucoStabilizer（Medical Decision Network，Charlottesville，VA）, although they were proved to improve in blood glucose management in hospitals, nurses still need to manually enter clinical parameters and each blood glucose data, causing a burden on medical staff.

Neither Glucommander nor EndoTool system considered vital signs, intravenous and partial intravenous nutrition infusion, diagnosis of hepatic, renal and heart failure, which would also affect the level of blood glucose. To our best knowledge, no similar eGMS has been developed in Asia or Taiwan. Our hospital is about to develop an easy-to-operate eGMS. This system can automatically obtain the patient's demographic characteristics, vital signs, daily diet and intake status, usage of anti-diabetic agents or other medications that affect the level of blood glucose, the ICD codes of hypoglycemia risk factors, and laboratory test results from the electronic medical records of the hospital. There is no need to manually input by the medical staff, and the recommended insulin dose will be updated and calculated continuously. The FEMH eGMS study will be developed in Feb. 2022.

The purpose of this study is to compare the eGMS designed by FEMH with the usual insulin ordering protocol in the safety and efficacy of subcutaneous insulin therapy in ordinary ward.