A Pharmacist-Led Practice to Improve Perioperative Glycemic Control in Elective Surgery.

Quality Improvement Success Stories are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of .

Strategies for intraoperative glucose management: a scoping review.

Purpose: Perioperative hyperglycemia is associated with adverse outcomes for patients with and without diabetes. Guidelines and published protocols for intraoperative glycemic management have substantial variation in their recommendations. We sought to characterize the current evidence-guiding intraoperative glycemic management in a scoping review.

Risk Factors for Preoperative Hyperglycemia in Surgical Patients with Diabetes: A Case-Control Study.

Background: Patients with diabetes are more likely to undergo a surgical procedure than the rest of the population, and it is well established that preoperative hyperglycemia is associated with adverse surgical outcomes. However, it is currently unknown what factors increase the odds of preoperative hyperglycemia in people with diabetes.

Objective: To identify patient characteristics that increase the risk of preoperative hyperglycemia.