Sliding scale insulin therapy uses your pre-meal blood sugar level to determine insulin dosage. Research indicates sliding scale insulin therapy is ineffective at managing blood sugar levels.

The most frequent causes of hyperglycemia were the absence of ownership in patients' diabetes mellitus management and the exclusive use of sliding-scale insulin regimens for disease management.

These results suggest that a basal-bolus insulin protocol can reduce hypoglycemia; however, factors such as protocol compliance, barriers in overcoming the use of the traditional sliding scale ...