Diabetic patients developing preventable life-threatening complications in hospital
The results of the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) which examined data collected by hospital teams in England and Wales about inpatients with diabetes over a five-day period in September 2012 show that in just one week more than 60 hospital inpatients with diabetes developed a life-threatening but preventable complication, and that the majority of hospitals in England and Wales made medication errors
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