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Table 1 Pilot CRCT Demographic data

From: The impact of nursing staff education on diabetes inpatient glucose management: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial

Medical Wards

Phase

Online Learning Ward

PB

Face to Face (F2F) Ward

PF

Control Ward

PC

Pbaseline

Baseline + Rollout

Post intervention

Baseline + Rollout

Post intervention

Baseline + Rollout

Post intervention

Number of patients (n)

151

213

 

96

107

 

123

137

  

Age in years

69.8

(± 12.7)

68.4

(± 11.2)

0.446

68.2

(± 12.0)

67.1

(± 11.2)

0.773

70.9

(± 13.2)

69.9

(± 13.7)

0.581

0.098

Gender (Female)

56(37%)

88(41%)

0.330

54(56%)

49(46%)

0.078

69(56%)

65(47%)

0.325

0.968

European Descent

115(76%)

143(67%)

0.062

75(78%)

81(76%)

0.818

92(75%)

100(73%)

0.893

0.471

Diabetes Type

 Type 1 (%)

4(3%)

11(5%)

0.182

3(3%)

7(7%)

0.295

8(7%)

4(3%)

0.259

0.232

 Type 2 (%)

147(97%)

202(95%)

93(97%)

99(93%)

115(93%)

133(97%)

Glucose on admission (mmol/L)

12.5(± 5.3)

13.0(± 5.1)

0.494

13.9(± 7.0)

12.6(± 5.1)

0.200

13.4(± 6.1)

13.3(± 5.3)

0.900

0.734

Type of admission

 Emergency

141(93%)

196(92%)

0.011

90(94%)

95(89%)

0.414

121(98%)

132(96%)

0.071

0.488

 Elective

1(1%)

12(6%)

1(1%)

2(2%)

0(0%)

3(2%)

 Transfer

9(6%)

5(2%)

5(5%)

10(9%)

2(2%)

2(1%)

Treatment on Admission

 Lifestyle

18(12%)

9(4%)

0.012

11(11%)

9(8%)

0.244

13(11%)

18(13%)

0.189

0.690

 Tablet

86(57%)

128(60%)

45(47%)

66(62%)

58(47%)

75(55%)

 Insulin

39(26%)

66(31%)

30(31%)

25(23%)

32(26%)

37(27%)

 GLP 1

0(0%)

4(2%)

0(0%)

3(3%)

0(0%)

3(2%)

 Insulin treated T2DM (%)

35(23%)

55(26%)

0.319

27(28%)

18(17%)

0.074

24(20%)

33(24%)

0.561

0.428

 Total patients with BGL > 11 mmol/L

70(46%)

124(58%)

 < 0.001

56(58%)

60(56%)

0.792

69(56%)

82(60%)

0.703

0.814

Admission reason

 Diabetes

3(2%)

3(1%)

0.976

6(6%)

1(1%)

0.044

12(10%)

6(4%)

0.110

0.014

 Other

147(97%)

210(99%)

90(94%)

106(99%)

111(90%)

131(96%)

Documented Complications present

 Chronic kidney disease

9(6%)

18(8%)

0.382

2(2%)

2(2%)

0.944

9(7%)

13(9%)

0.334

0.228

 Foot disease

5(3%)

8(4%)

0.830

2(2%)

4(4%)

0.457

7(6%)

7(5%)

0.624

0.308

 Macrovascular

22(15%)

64(30%)

 < 0.0001

13(14%)

20(19%)

0.779

15(12%)

18(13%)

0.349

0.641

 Autonomic

3(2%)

13(6%)

0.132

3(3%)

4(4%)

0.770

3(2%)

7(5%)

0.960

0.832

 Eye disease

3(2%)

9(4%)

0.481

1(1%)

2(2%)

0.602

2(2%)

6(4%)

0.139

0.641

  1. Pbaseline is the p value for the difference between baseline values for the three wards (clusters). PB is p value for the difference between baseline/rollout and post-intervention in online learning ward, and similarly PF and PC are the p values for F2F and control wards