Impact of hypoglycaemic events in diabetic patients
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The impact of hypoglycaemic events requiring intervention in patients with type I diabetes treated with insulin therapy
IRAS ID
184948
Contact name
Steve Bain
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 4 months, 31 days
Research summary
This is an observational, retrospective, multi-centre, descriptive research study. The target patient group will be patients with type I diabetes managed on insulin therapy. Patients with severe self-reported hypoglycaemia requiring third party intervention over the last 24 months will be studied.
The study will take place in 10 centres in the UK and will recruit between 50 and 80 patients. The centres can be primary care practices or secondary/tertiary hospitals.This observational study will collect retrospective information relating to NHS resource use, patient characteristics, treatment(s), clinical outcomes and the number of severe hypoglycaemic events. This would include not only planned care but unplanned hospital admissions and other points of care in the pathway, including ambulance call-outs and A&E visits.
Retrospective data will be collected from patients’ medical records by trained data collectors. All patients will be invited to consent to allow a researcher access to their medical records for the purpose of data collection.REC name
HSC REC A
REC reference
15/NI/0169
Date of REC Opinion
4 Aug 2015
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion