Abstract:Objective To explore the relationship of admission blood glucose levels in the emergency department with hospitalization time, medical cost and disease prognosis. Methods Totally 6151 patients were collected from 01/02/2015 to 31/07/2015 in the emergency department of Wuxi People’s Hospital, divided into hyperglycemia group and normal blood glucose group according to random blood glucose ≥7.8mmol/L and divided into high cost group and low cost group according to the average of total medical cost 19905 Yuan RMB. Results Patients with hyperglycemia had significant older age, longer hospitalization, higher medical cost and higher rates of rescue than patients in normal blood glucose group (P < 0.05). Patients with high cost had higher blood glucose level, older age, longer hospitalization than patients with low cost (P < 0.05). The risk factors of hospitalization expenses included hospitalization time, random blood glucose level, age, department transference and rescue (P < 0.05). The average age, median of hospitalization time and the rate of readmission of hyperglycemia group with diabetic therapy before admission was higher than those of patients without diabetic therapy (P < 0.05).Patients with hyperglycemia who had high blood glucose after treatment had more medical cost and higher rate of rescue than those with normal blood glucose after treatment (P < 0.05). Conclusions Multidisciplinary collaboration is conducive to optimizing the treatment and economic cost of critical state of patients with hyperglycemia. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the whole society blood sugar screening, guide blood sugar control, and reduce the impact of hyperglycemia on stress state patients at the source.