Stationäre Patienten mit der Nebendiagnose Diabetes mellitus: klinische Relevanz

About 3 million patients with diabetes are treated as inpatients in German hospitals every year, whereby 93% of them are not treated because of diabetes but diabetes was a secondary diagnosis. In some departments, up to 40% of patients have a secondary diagnosis of diabetes. They often have a relevant comorbidity and, compared to hospital patients without diabetes, a longer inpatient stay, develop complications significantly more often and are more frequently readmitted in the short term. This review analyses the clinical relevance of the secondary diagnosis of diabetes mellitus for hospitalized patients.