Process improvements and teamwork reduce hypoglycemic events
Process improvements and teamwork reduce hypoglycemic events
4 PagesNorthwestern Medicine Process improvements and teamwork reduce hypoglycemic events. Improving hypoglycemia recheck timeliness prevents adverse events for Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital. In 2019, Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital recognized an opportunity to improve the timeliness of repeat point-of-care (POC) blood glucose (BG) testing following hypoglycemic events (POC BG < 70mg/dL). The percentage of repeat POC BG testing done within 15–30 minutes of an event was 33% for their pilot unit — significantly lower than the 75% rate of performance published by another institution in 2017. Targeting a recheck time between 15–30 minutes is ideal, as it accounts for the time potentially needed to administer treatment.
