Diabetes MellitusNCT06190808
Continuous Glucose Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit
A study testing Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitor in people with Diabetes Mellitus, run by University of Massachusetts, Worcester at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The aim of the proposed clinical trial is to study the use of the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor (CGM) within the intensive care unit (ICU) environment. The overall goal is to validate the accuracy and practicality of the Dexcom G7 when used to assess glycemia in critically ill patients. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Diabetes Mellitus
- What is being tested?
- Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitor
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 16 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 20 Feb 2024to 25 Jul 2025
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Campus medical intensive care unit for any reason who have known diabetes or who are hyperglycemic (blood glucose concentration ≥200 mg/dL) with diabetes that was previously undiagnosed or unrecognized.
- Persons with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
- Persons of either sex.
- Persons of any age over 18.
- Persons able to give informed consent or cognitively impaired adults whose legally authorized representative (LAR) can give informed consent.
- English or Spanish speaking adults.
Who cannot join
- Persons unable to provide informed consent.
- Cognitively impaired persons whose LAR declines to provide informed consent.
- Patients receiving hydroxyurea, which interferes with sensor function.
- Patients receiving high dose acetaminophen (> 4 gm/day), which interferes with sensor function.
- Anasarca affecting preferred areas for device placement (arm, upper buttocks, or thigh), which may interfere with sensor accuracy.
- Severe cachexia with absence of subcutaneous fat at preferred sensor placement sites, which might interfere with sensor accuracy.
- Persons who are pregnant.
- Prisoners.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
UMass Memorial Medical Center
Worcester, Massachusetts, 01605
About this study
Official title: Continuous Glucose Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit: Validation and Implementation
The aim of the proposed clinical trial is to study the use of the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor (CGM) within the intensive care unit (ICU) environment. The overall goal is to validate the accuracy and practicality of the Dexcom G7 when used to assess glycemia in critically ill patients.
Read the detailed description
The specific goals are 1) to work with intensive care unit (ICU) staff, in a respiratory ICU setting, to determine how best to place and maintain Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) on patients and how to place recording devices and chargers in that environment, 2) download CGM readings to the Dexcom Dashboard in an analyzable format, and 3) to compare simultaneous CGM readings with glucose measurements obtained in the course of routine care as recorded in the electronic medical record. The primary analytical goal is the correlation of CGM glucose measurements with those obtained in the course of routine care. A secondary goal is to determine the frequency of device malfunctions that occur either as a result of device failure (e.g. it falls off) or adverse events (e.g. removal due to skin irritation).
Study subjects will be patients admitted to the 6-ICU UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) University Campus medical intensive care unit for any reason who have known diabetes or who are hyperglycemic (blood glucose concentration ≥200 mg/dL) with diabetes that was previously undiagnosed or unrecognized. All enrolled volunteers will have a Dexcom G7 CGM place on the skin according to manufacturer's specifications. The devices will remain in place for 10 days or until discharge from the ICU
- Conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Being tested
- Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitor
- Keywords
- ICU, CGM, Accuracy, Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Diabetes mellitus, Continuous glucose monitor, Intensive care
- Medical subject headings
- Diabetes Mellitus, Hypoglycemia
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose MonitorDiagnostic test
Continuous glucose monitor
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Single Arm | Experimental | All members of the arm will have a CGM place and glucose concentration downloaded. Receives: Diagnostic Test: Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitor |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Mean Absolute Relative Difference (MARD).
Concordance of glucose concentration results obtained by standard test methods with those obtained nearly simultaneously by a continuous glucose monitoring device was assessed by Mean Absolute Relative Difference (MARD). The MARD is the average percentage difference between the continuous glucose monitor readings measured over 6 months and glucose concentration results obtained by near simultaneous (+/- 5 minutes) standard test methods was used to gauge the accuracy of the CGM in the ICU setting. Typical MARD values reported for CGMs in the outpatient setting average approximately 8%. Typical MARD values reported for CGMs other than the one used in this study n the ICU setting average approximately 12%.
Measured: 6 months
Clarke Error Grid
Concordance of glucose concentration results obtained by standard test methods with those obtained nearly simultaneously by a continuous glucose monitoring device was assessed by Clarke Error Grid. The Clarke Error Grid plots of reference glucose values obtained by point-of-care fingerstick or laboratory determination (x-axis) against CGM values (y-axis). The grid is divided into 5 zones (A-E) that indicate clinical implications of CGM glucose measurements when compared to a "gold standard" Region A: Clinically accurate. Region B: Benign measurement error. Region C: Overcorrection error region CGM values suggest unnecessary treatment. Region D: Serious hypo- or hyperglycemia detection error region. Region E: Erroneous treatment region. CGM fails to detect potentially dangerous hypo- or hyperglycemia Ideally, all values are in Regions A and B. We report the percentage of correlated values that fall in each region.
Measured: 6 months
Secondary outcomes (1)
Unplanned Event Frequency
Number of occurrences per patient of device failure or or unforeseen device removal
Measured: 6 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted5 Jan 2024
- Study start20 Feb 2024
- Primary completion25 Jul 2025
- Study completion25 Jul 2025
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, outcome measures and adverse events reported by the sponsor.
- Other trials for Diabetes MellitusStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by University of Massachusetts, WorcesterThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Model description
- Hyperglycemic patients admitted to an intensive care unit will have blood glucose concentration measured using current standard-of-care tests (fingerstick determinations and laboratory assays). Study participants will bel be asked to volunteer to permit concurrent glucose measurement using a Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor in order to determine the accuracy and feasibility of the latter. Only standard glucose measurements will be used for patient management.
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 16 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Massachusetts, Worcester
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, John P Mordes, MD, University of Massachusetts, Worcester
- Investigators
- John P Mordes, MD, Principal investigator, UMass Chan Medical School
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06190808
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- STUDY00001138
- Status last verified
- Sep 2026
- First submitted
- 7 Dec 2023
- Last updated
- 29 Sep 2026
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- Yes
- Individual data sharing
- Yes: Study design and deidentified aggregate glucose concentration data will be shared. No individual patient data will be shared.
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 29 Sep 2026. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Continuous Glucose Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit: Validation and Implementation
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06190808
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- STUDY00001138
- Conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Keywords
- ICU, CGM, Accuracy, Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Diabetes mellitus, Continuous glucose monitor, Intensive care
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 16 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- University of Massachusetts, WorcesterUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 20 Feb 2024 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 25 Jul 2025 (actual)
- Study completion
- 25 Jul 2025 (actual)
- First posted
- 5 Jan 2024 (actual)
- Results
- Posted 29 Sep 2026
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The aim of the proposed clinical trial is to study the use of the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor (CGM) within the intensive care unit (ICU) environment. The overall goal is to validate the accuracy and practicality of the Dexcom G7 when used to assess glycemia in critically ill patients.
Detailed description
The specific goals are 1) to work with intensive care unit (ICU) staff, in a respiratory ICU setting, to determine how best to place and maintain Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) on patients and how to place recording devices and chargers in that environment, 2) download CGM readings to the Dexcom Dashboard in an analyzable format, and 3) to compare simultaneous CGM readings with glucose measurements obtained in the course of routine care as recorded in the electronic medical record. The primary analytical goal is the correlation of CGM glucose measurements with those obtained in the course of routine care. A secondary goal is to determine the frequency of device malfunctions that occur either as a result of device failure (e.g. it falls off) or adverse events (e.g. removal due to skin irritation).
Study subjects will be patients admitted to the 6-ICU UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) University Campus medical intensive care unit for any reason who have known diabetes or who are hyperglycemic (blood glucose concentration ≥200 mg/dL) with diabetes that was previously undiagnosed or unrecognized. All enrolled volunteers will have a Dexcom G7 CGM place on the skin according to manufacturer's specifications. The devices will remain in place for 10 days or until discharge from the ICU
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Other
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
- Model description
- Hyperglycemic patients admitted to an intensive care unit will have blood glucose concentration measured using current standard-of-care tests (fingerstick determinations and laboratory assays). Study participants will bel be asked to volunteer to permit concurrent glucose measurement using a Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor in order to determine the accuracy and feasibility of the latter. Only standard glucose measurements will be used for patient management.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Single Arm | Experimental | Diagnostic Test: Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose MonitorAll members of the arm will have a CGM place and glucose concentration downloaded. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (6 listed)
- Campus medical intensive care unit for any reason who have known diabetes or who are hyperglycemic (blood glucose concentration ≥200 mg/dL) with diabetes that was previously undiagnosed or unrecognized.
- Persons with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
- Persons of either sex.
- Persons of any age over 18.
- Persons able to give informed consent or cognitively impaired adults whose legally authorized representative (LAR) can give informed consent.
Key exclusion criteria (8 listed)
- Persons unable to provide informed consent.
- Cognitively impaired persons whose LAR declines to provide informed consent.
- Patients receiving hydroxyurea, which interferes with sensor function.
- Patients receiving high dose acetaminophen (> 4 gm/day), which interferes with sensor function.
- Anasarca affecting preferred areas for device placement (arm, upper buttocks, or thigh), which may interfere with sensor accuracy.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose MonitorContinuous glucose monitor | Diagnostic test | Single Arm |
Primary outcome
Mean Absolute Relative Difference (MARD).
Time frame: 6 months
Concordance of glucose concentration results obtained by standard test methods with those obtained nearly simultaneously by a continuous glucose monitoring device was assessed by Mean Absolute Relative Difference (MARD). The MARD is the average percentage difference between the continuous glucose monitor readings measured over 6 months and glucose concentration results obtained by near simultaneous (+/- 5 minutes) standard test methods was used to gauge the accuracy of the CGM in the ICU setting. Typical MARD values reported for CGMs in the outpatient setting average approximately 8%. Typical MARD values reported for CGMs other than the one used in this study n the ICU setting average approximately 12%.
Clarke Error Grid
Time frame: 6 months
Concordance of glucose concentration results obtained by standard test methods with those obtained nearly simultaneously by a continuous glucose monitoring device was assessed by Clarke Error Grid. The Clarke Error Grid plots of reference glucose values obtained by point-of-care fingerstick or laboratory determination (x-axis) against CGM values (y-axis). The grid is divided into 5 zones (A-E) that indicate clinical implications of CGM glucose measurements when compared to a "gold standard" Region A: Clinically accurate. Region B: Benign measurement error. Region C: Overcorrection error region CGM values suggest unnecessary treatment. Region D: Serious hypo- or hyperglycemia detection error region. Region E: Erroneous treatment region. CGM fails to detect potentially dangerous hypo- or hyperglycemia Ideally, all values are in Regions A and B. We report the percentage of correlated values that fall in each region.
1 secondary outcome
Unplanned Event Frequency
Time frame: 6 months
Results and safety
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Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 29 Sep 2026.
- Posted resultsParticipant flow, baseline, all outcome measures and adverse events.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Yes. Study design and deidentified aggregate glucose concentration data will be shared. No individual patient data will be shared.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
John P Mordes, MD principal investigator
UMass Chan Medical School
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Dexcom G7 Continuous Glucose Monitor in people with Diabetes Mellitus, run by University of Massachusetts, Worcester at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 8 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 29 Sep 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 29 Sep 2026). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Mean Absolute Relative Difference (MARD). (time frame: 6 months). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 29 Sep 2026.