Construction and preliminary evaluation of the inpatient glycemic control questionnaire (IGCQ): a survey tool assessing perceptions and knowledge of resident physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Uncontrolled hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients, with or without diabetes mellitus, is associated with many adverse outcomes. Resident physicians are the primary managers of inpatient glycemic control (IGC) in many academic and community medical centers; however, no validated survey tools related to their perceptions and knowledge of IGC are currently available. As identification of common barriers to successful IGC amongst resident physicians may help foster better educational interventions (ultimately leading to improvements in IGC and patient care), we sought to construct and preliminarily evaluate such a survey tool.

Methods

We developed the IGC questionnaire (IGCQ) by using previously published but unvalidated survey tools related to physician perspective

SUBMITTER: Horton WB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6591905 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature