Inpatient management of diabetes and hyperglycaemia: an audit of Spanish hospitals.

Objectives: Evaluation of quality of care for patients with diabetes mellitus admitted to hospitals in Spain.

Methods: Cross-sectional study in one day that included 1193 (26.7%) patients with type 2 diabetes or hyperglycaemia out of a total of 4468 patients admitted to the internal medicine departments of 53 hospitals in Spain.