Table 3 Rate of moderate and severe hypoglycaemia during the first 24 hours after ICU admission
Severe hypoglycaemia | Moderate hypoglycaemia | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Glucose ≤2.2 mmol/L | Glucose ≤3.9 mmol/L | |||||
Before NICE-SUGAR | After NICE-SUGAR | P | Before NICE-SUGAR | After NICE-SUGAR | P | |
All patients | 0.59% (449/76,600) | 0.55% (489/88,896) | 0.33 | 6.62% (5,076/76,600) | 5.68% (5,051/88,896) | <0.0001 |
Surgical patients | 0.26% (106/40,847) | 0.23% (109/47,670) | 0.35 | 4.48% (1,828/40,847) | 3.17% (1,511/47,670) | <0.0001 |
Medical patients | 0.96% (339/35,433) | 0.93% (380/41,077) | 0.65 | 9.12% (3,230/35,433) | 8.61% (3,531/41,077) | 0.012 |
IDDM patients | 1.72% (43/2,499) | 1.55% (38/2,454) | 0.63 | 14.21% (355/2,499) | 13.20% (324/2,454) | 0.3 |
No-IDDM patients | 0.57% (286/49,995) | 0.52% (310/59,966) | 0.22 | 6.79% (3,394/49,995) | 5.64% (3,385/59,966) | <0.0001 |
Patients with >48 h ICU stay | 0.63% (201/32,089) | 0.64% (241/37,702) | 0.83 | 7.85% (2,520/32,089) | 6.87% (2,591/37,702) | <0.0001 |
Patients with <48 h ICU stay | 0.56% (248/44,488) | 0.48% (248/51,169) | 0.12 | 5.74% (2,554/44,488) | 4.80% (2,458/51,169) | <0.0001 |
NICE-SUGAR ICU | 0.60% (100/16,794) | 0.57% (111/19,346) | 0.79 | 5.69% (955/16,794) | 5.62% (1,087/19,346) | 0.78 |
Not NICE-SUGAR ICU | 0.58% (349/59,806) | 0.54% (378/69,550) | 0.34 | 6.89% (4,121/59,806) | 5.70% (3,964/69,550) | <0.0001 |
Hospital level | ||||||
Rural | 0.66% (31/4,708) | 0.6% (27/4,506) | 0.72 | 6.65% (313/4,708) | 6.88% (310/4,506) | 0.66 |
Metropolitan | 0.73% (83/11,414) | 0.79% (104/13,128) | 0.56 | 6.59% (752/11,414) | 6.51% (854/13,128) | 0.79 |
Tertiary | 0.66% (301/45,756) | 0.61% (319/52,634) | 0.31 | 7.65% (3,500/45,756) | 6.5% (3,421/52,364) | <0.0001 |
Private | 0.23% (34/14,722) | 0.21% (39/18,628) | 0.68 | 3.47% (511/14,722) | 2.5% (466/18,628) | <0.0001 |