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

Table 2 Effect of Intervention on Length of Stay, Glycaemic Control and Quality of Care

Medical Wards	Online Learning Ward		P_B	Face to Face (F2F) Ward		P_F	Control Ward		P_C	P_baseline
Phase	Baseline + Rollout	Post inter-vention	P_B	Baseline + Rollout	Post inter-vention	P_F	Baseline + Rollout	Post inter-vention	P_C	P_baseline
Number of patients (n)	151	213		96	107		123	137
Length of stay – median (IQR)	5.00 (2.0–8.0)	4.00 (2.0–7.0)	0.4084	7.00 (4.0–14.0)	5.00 (3.0–13.0)	0.0964	5.00 (3.0–9.0)	5.00 (3.0–7.0)	0.0894	0.0007
Good diabetes days (GDD)/week – median (IQR)	4.66 (2.7–7.0)	6.00 (2.3–7.0)	0.0375	5.25 (2.8–7.0)	5.72 (3.5–7.0)	0.5262	4.2 (2.3–6.0)	5.25 (2.3–7.0)	0.0780	0.1503
Total patients with hypos	15(10%)	34(16%)	0.0426	16(17%)	17(16%)	0.9311	16(13%)	19(14%)	0.8272	0.1794
Total severe hypos (< 3.0 mmol/L)	5(3%)	13(6%)	0.050	5(5%)	5(5%)	0.854	3(2%)	9(7%)	0.144	0.644
Hypos treated appropriately (patient %)	12(80%)	29(85%)	0.026	15(94%)	16(94%)	0.319	14(88%)	13(68%)	0.028	< 0.0001
Total medication errors	23(15%)	35(16%)	0.938	14(15%)	12(11%)	0.938	11(9%)	27(20%)	0.0028	0.058

P_baseline is the p value for the difference between baseline values for the three wards (clusters). P_B is p value for the difference between baseline/rollout and post-intervention in the online learning ward, and similarly P_F and P_C are the p values for F2F and control ward

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