Table 4: Factors contributing to HADKA.

Cause

Hospital A

Hospital B

All patients

Insulin administration

Withholding insulin

0

1

1

Insulin dose reduction

0

2, (3)

2, (3)

Interruption to insulin infusion

1

0

1

Infection

 

3, (4)

3, (4)

Steroid use

 

1

1

SGLT2 inhibitor

2, (3)

0

2, (3)

Acute stress from disease

(1)

1

1, (2)

(In brackets - when more than one causative factor is present).