Glycemic Control and Infections in Patients with Diabetes Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery
King JT, Goulet JL, Perkal MF, Rosenthal RA. Glycemic Control and Infections in Patients with Diabetes Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery. Annals Of Surgery 2011, 253: 158-165. PMID: 21135698, DOI: 10.1097/sla.0b013e3181f9bb3a.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSerum glucose concentrationPerioperative glucose controlPostoperative infectionGlucose controlSurgical proceduresDiabetic patientsGlucose concentrationNational Surgical Quality Improvement Program databaseInfection rateOverall postoperative infection rateQuality Improvement Program databaseMultivariate Poisson regression modelNoncardiac surgical proceduresPostoperative infectious complicationsImprovement Program databasePostoperative infection rateSurgical outcome dataNationwide samplePoisson regression modelsPreoperative HbA1cPreoperative laboratoryInfectious complicationsNoncardiac surgeryNoncardiac operationsGlycemic control