Conditions: Diabetes Admitting Hospital Non-critically Ill
Keywords: diabetes glucose hospital
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 126
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to determine whether mealtime insulin results in better control of blood sugar than a fixed meal dose in hospitalized patients.

Detailed description:
The purpose of this study is to determine whether mealtime insulin, dosed to match the intake of carbohydrates (starches or sugars) results in better control of blood sugar than a fixed meal dose in hospitalized patients.

Arms:
arm 1: aspart dose determined based upon carbohydrate intake. arm 2: fixed meal dose of aspart (based upon weight or total daily insulin dose)

Interventions: intervention 1: Aspart fixed dose intervention 2: Aspart flexible dose
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: fixed dose intervention 2: dose based upon carbohydrate intake and total daily requirements

Protocol document: