Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: The prevalence of diabetic patients admitted in hospitals close to 20% in some series. Our goal is to determine the prevalence of diabetic patients assessed by interclinical calls from different medical and surgical specialties that have been entered during 2015 in our Hospital, in order to describe the characteristics that these diabetic patients.

Material and methods: We present 116 patients evaluated by interclinical consultation request form from different medical and surgical specialties. The patients were admitted in Algeciras Hospital (Gibraltar Health Area) during 12 months - period beginning from 1 January to 31 December 2015. We have determined the different quantitative and qualitative variables: source of income, sex, age, type of diabetes, time of evolution, place of origin, family history, hospital stay, treatment before and during admission, complications of their diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors associated.

Summary of results: 58.3% were women compared to 41.7% of men with diabetes. The type 2 diabetes was 83.3%, 12.5% with type 1 diabetes, and 4.2% Diabetes not known before admission. The mean age of patients admitted with type 2 diabetes was 59.3+/− 19.14 ST, and average age of type 1 patients was 34.6 years. Mean hospital stay was 23.5+/− 19.7 days, and a 31.7% of readmissions. The survival rate was 87.5% versus 12.5% EXITUS.

Conclusions: • The Endocrinology Unit of Punta Europa Hospital (Gibraltar Health Area) received an average of 9.7 interclinical calls per month in 2015, in order to assessment of hyperglycemia in diabetic patients, either secondary to diabetes known as metabolically decompensated or in patients with no known diabetes before to admission.

• Hyperglycemia is a common finding in hospitalized patients. It is associated with increased days of hospital stay, morbidity and mortality.