Using technology to support diabetes care in hospital: Guidelines from the Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS‐IP) group and Diabetes Technology Network (DTN) UK
Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inp… · 2024 · United Kingdom
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- Authors
- Parizad Avari, Pratik Choudhary, Alistair Lumb et al.
- Title
- Using technology to support diabetes care in hospital: Guidelines from the Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS‐IP) group and Diabetes Technology Network (DTN) UK
- Journal
- Diabetic Medicine, 2024
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Changes
- Verbatim excerpts; formatting adapted
Full text retrieved 2026-10-27 from Europe PMC · PMC11823341
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Abstract
This article summarises the Joint British Diabetes Societies for Inpatient Care (JBDS‐IP) Group guidelines on the use of technology to support diabetes care in hospital. The guideline incorporates two main areas: (i) use of wearable technology devices to improve diabetes management in hospital (including continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pump therapy) and (ii) information technology. Although it is reasonable to extrapolate from the evidence available, that devices developed to enhance diabetes care outside hospital will show similar benefits, there are challenges posed within the inpatient setting in hospital. This guidance provides a pragmatic approach to supporting self‐management in individuals using wearable technology admitted to hospital. Furthermore, it also aims to provide a best practice guide for using information technology to monitor diabetes care and communicate between health professionals.
Contents of the original publication
The section headings of the original.
- INTRODUCTION
- WEARABLE DIABETES TECHNOLOGY
- Continuous glucose monitoring
- Hybrid closed‐loop systems/automated insulin delivery systems
- ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING AND MEDICINES ADMINISTRATION
- CLINICAL USE OF POINT‐OF‐CARE TESTING
- Point‐of‐care glucose measurements
- Using networked POCT measurements to drive clinical effectiveness
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT INPATIENT DIABETES CARE
- Electronic health records
- SELF‐MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS
- Self‐management of insulin pumps (continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion during hospital admission)
- Principles of self‐management of insulin pumps by inpatients
- Pump management for procedures requiring a period of starvation
- Continuous glucose monitoring
- Electronic prescribing and medicines administration
- NATIONAL DATASETS TO IMPROVE DIABETES CARE
- FUTURE RESEARCH
- ADDITIONAL WEBSITE LINKS
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