U-500 Insulin

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Mon, 06/06/2016 - 15:47
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Bob Cutter
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U-500 Insulin

We have chosen to not add U-500 insulin to our formulary for safety reasons. Unfortunately, we are seeing more and more patients admitted that are using this product as an outpatient and we are being asked to convert them to a U-100 product. Have any of you come up with a policy to convert U-500 patients to U-100 products that you would be willing to share? Our current practice is to just put the patients on an insulin drip, but our providers are not very happy with that option. Thank you in advance for your help.

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