“…In hospitals, poor GC is an important public health problem that has strong economic and patient safety implications, due to its association with poor patient outcomes. Poor GC during hospitalization is associated with increased hospital length of stay, transfers to higher levels of care, increased incidence of nosocomial infections, poor functional outcomes, and increased mortality rates among patients with diabetes (Brock, Shirley, Bardgett, Walker, & Deehan, 2017; Draznin et al, 2014; Falciglia, Freyberg, Almenoff, Alessio, & Render, 2009; Frisch et al, 2010; Olveira et al, 2013; Subramaniam et al, 2014; Williams et al, 2017). While there is convincing evidence that improving GC during hospitalization for acute illness can effectively reduce morbidity and mortality and improve outcomes, poor GC continues to be a pervasive problem among non-critically ill hospitalized patients who have diabetes (Arnold, Mahesri, McDonnell, & Alexanian, 2017; Cook et al, 2007; Cook et al, 2009; Mendez et al, 2013; Murad et al, 2012; Swanson, Potter, Kongable, & Cook, 2011; Vogel, Smith, & Kruse, 2017).…”