Controlling blood sugar before surgery helps reduce infections, mortality rates.
Hospitals should expand point-of-care testing programs for blood sugar levels for all patients--including as a pre-operating screening program for hyperglycemia--because testing costs are so low and the potential for quality improvement and cost savings are so high.
D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D011300:Preoperative Care; D014481:United States
D001786:Blood Glucose