[Consensus document on the management after hospital discharge of patient with hyperglycaemia]

The present document intends to adapt the general recommendations set up in a consensus to elaborate the hospital discharge report in medical specialties to the specific needs of the hospitalized diabetic population. Diabetes is an illness with a very high health cost, being the global risk of death in people with diabetes almost double than in non-diabetes people, justifying the fact that diabetes constitutes one of the most frequent diagnoses in hospitalized patients and the growing interest upon hyperglycaemia management during hospitalization and at discharge. To set up an adequate treatment plan at discharge suitable for each patient, the most important elements to take into account are the etiology and prior hyperglycaemia treatment, the patient's clinical situation and the degree of glycaemia control. Due to instability of glycaemia control, it is also needed to anticipate the educational needs for each patient, as well as to set up the monitoring schedule and follow-up at discharge, and an adequate treatment plan at discharge.