Live Credit Claim: Maryland Chapter Meeting: October 13, 2026 -- From Routine to Rational: Evidence-Informed Strategies to Reduce Low-Value Inpatient Glucose Monitoring

Fingersticks without benefit drain time and trust at the bedside. In this session, presenters examine why low-value inpatient glucose monitoring persists, present multicenter data to quantify its burden, and use condition-specific guidance for steroid-induced hyperglycemia to design adaptive protocols. You will identify candidates for de-escalation, evaluate how expanding inpatient CGM could magnify waste, and champion order-set changes that elevate care.

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On-Demand

Release on Oct 13, 2026 12:00 AM Central Daylight Time
Expires on Jan 13, 2027

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$0.00

Credit Offered

1 CME Credit

1 Participation Credit

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Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, learners should be able to:

Define "low-value" inpatient glucose monitoring using current ADA and Endocrine Society guideline criteria and articulate the gap those guidelines leave regarding de-escalation of monitoring.
Describe the prevalence and financial implications of low-value POC-G testing in non-critically ill hospitalized patients.
Apply the Joint British Diabetes Society’s glucose monitoring framework for steroid-induced hyperglycemia in clinical care and use this as a practical illustration of condition-specific and adaptive glucose monitoring tailored to patient needs.
Discuss how identifying appropriate candidates for de-escalation is increasingly important as emerging inpatient CGM technology risks amplifying the costs of low-value glucose monitoring if applied without patient selection criteria.
Use a structured decision framework to prospectively identify hospitalized patients who can be considered for reduced POC-G monitoring.
Apply guideline-based and individualized glucose monitoring for steroid induced hyperglycemia.
Advocate for order set redesign and multidisciplinary education initiatives at their institution to address low-value monitoring.

Faculty

Afsheen Siddiqui, MD
Niloofar Latifi, MD
Kevin O'Malley, MD
Amteshwar Singh, MD, MEd, FACP, SFHM
Amy Yu, MD

Accreditation Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Statement
The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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