Table 1.

Baseline characteristics and hypoglycemia results

	Insulin ordering with the calculator	Insulin ordering without the calculator	p-value *
Count of encounters, n	349	117
Age (years), mean ± SD a	12.94 ± 4.3	12.78 ± 4.9	0.76
Length of Stay (Days), median (IQR † )	2.2 (1.8 – 3.8)	2.7 (1.7 – 4.5)	0.65
Female, n (%)	182 (52%)	66 (56%)	0.42
Total number of bolus doses administered	4292	1196
Number of bolus doses administered per encounter, median (IQR † )	7 (4 – 11)	6 (3 – 9)	0.01
Hypoglycemia ( < 70 mg/dl), %	2.2	2.9	0.17
Encounters with at least one episode of hypoglycemia, n (%)	66 (19%)	13 (11%)	0.29
Severe Hypoglycemia ( < 40 mg/dl), %	0.04	0.1	0.21
Encounters with at least one episode of severe hypoglycemia, n (%)	3 (0.9%)	2 (1.7%)	0.3

^* Student t-test for age, Wilcoxon rank sum test for length of stay and number of doses administered per encounter, X ² test for gender, and Fischer Exact test for hypoglycemia and severe hypoglycemia.

^a SD: Standard deviation

^† IQR: Intra-quartile range.