Compare Your POC Glucose Results to other Hospitals

Whether you are a RALS-Plus user or not, you now have the ability to compare your hospital’s mean glucose results to hospitals across the country participating in the RALS-Annual Report program. In the world of glucose management, this is unprecedented news that can benefit your hospital significantly. Numerous regulatory, accrediting, and reporting agencies are moving towards linking reimbursement to the quality of medical care.

The RALS-Annual Report Provides 3 Charts

The RALS-Annual Report will offer your hospital the ability to demonstrate how successful it has been in the implementation of Glycemic Control protocols for the improvement of patient care.

• Your hospital’s mean POC patient glucose results against the RALS participating hospital aggregate mean.

• Your hospital’s ICU mean POC patient glucose results against the RALS participating hospital aggregate mean.

• Your hospital’s non-ICU mean POC patient glucose results against RALS participating hospital aggregate mean.

In the very near future, we will be offering other benchmarking products and services that will give you further insight into your hospital’s state of glycemic control and your hospital’s performance relative to other participating hospitals.

Examples of additional reports include the percentage of blood glucose results in clinically relevant ranges, comparison to other participating hospitals according to number of beds, region, type, and number of blood glucose measurements, time to target and % compliance with ACE*** guidelines.

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*Blood glucose data used is all de-identified patient POC blood glucose data contained within a specific RALS-Plus database. ICU locations were identified according to the locations provided by the specific institution. Pediatric, Neonatal, Nursery, and NICU areas were excluded.

**A hospital’s quartile is a number from 1 to 4. Quartiles provide a rough approximation of a specific hospital’s performance relative to all participating hospitals.

***American College of Endocrinology Position Statement on Inpatient Diabetes and Metabolic Control. Endocrine Practice. Vol. 10. No. 1, January/February 2004, pp.77-82, has formulated standards for diabetes management in the hospital. Among these standards are the upper limits for glycemic targets, which “are intended to provide clinicians with guidelines for promoting improved outcomes”. In particular, the guidelines recommend that patients’ blood glucose levels be less than 180 mg/dL in the general hospital units (non-ICU) and less than 110 mg/dL in the ICUs.