Home Insulin Pump Use in Hospitalized Children With Type 1 Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Pediatric data on inpatient home insulin pumps are absent in the literature. Understanding safety of home insulin pumps, managed by patients or caregivers, during times of illness will help diabetes technology securely move into pediatric hospitals.

Objective

To examine whether insulin can be safely and accurately delivered to hospitalized children through home insulin pumps when managed by patients or caregivers.

Design, setting, and participants

This single-center, retrospective, observational cohort study included children with insulin-dependent diabetes admitted to a tertiary children's hospital from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2021. In all these patients, diabetes was the primary or secondary diagnosis on admission.

Exposure

Insulin deliver

SUBMITTER: Owens J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10851090 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature