Table-II.
Glycaemic control and duration of hospitalization with different insulin regimen
| Variable | Insulin Regimen | No. of patients | mean ±SD |
95% Confidence Interval
|
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper | Lower | |||||
| FBS | Sliding scale | 186 | 154±24 | 150.69 | 157.77 | <0.001 |
| Basal bolus | 138 | 122±9 | 120.81 | 124.15 | ||
| Pre-mixed70/30 | 92 | 133±9 | 131.29 | 135.25 | ||
| RBS | Sliding scale | 186 | 273±40 | 267.28 | 279.03 | <0.001 |
| Basal bolus | 138 | 165±26 | 160.88 | 169.69 | ||
| Pre-mixed70/30 | 92 | 190±21 | 185.90 | 194.62 | ||
| Duration of hospitalization | Sliding scale | 186 | 15.5±3.6 | 14.99 | 16.03 | <0.001 |
| Basal bolus | 138 | 7.8±1.9 | 7.50 | 8.17 | ||
| Pre-mixed70/30 | 92 | 8.7±1.4 | 8.44 | 9.04 | ||
| Hypoglycaemic events | Sliding scale | 186 | 2.9±0.8 | 2.75 | 2.99 | <0.001 |
| Basal bolus | 138 | 3.9±1.0 | 3.71 | 4.06 | ||
| Pre-mixed70/30 | 92 | 3.1±0.8 | 2.85 | 3.19 | ||
| Hyperglycaemic events | Sliding scale | 186 | 9.4±6.9 | 8.36 | 10.36 | <0.001 |
| Basal bolus | 138 | 1.2±0.7 | 1.08 | 1.31 | ||
| Pre-mixed70/30 | 92 | 1.7±0.8 | 1.51 | 1.88 | ||