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.

Pulmonary embolism in very elderly patients. A diagnostic challenge.

Background: Diagnosing pulmonary embolisms can be challenging, given that its presentation shares clinical manifestations with other conditions. For patients 80 years of age or older, the healthcare challenge increases due to associated comorbidity when compared with younger patients (<80 years).

Objective: The aim of our study was to report the incidence of pulmonary embolism in elderly patients in our setting and identify differences in the clinical manifestations, comorbidity and laboratory parameters between these 2 groups of patients.