Audit of oxygen prescribing before and after the introduction of a prescription chart

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Abstract
Junior doctors at the North West Lung Centre are given two lectures on practical aspects of oxygen delivery and prescribing at the beginning of their one year's rotation in respiratory medicine. In 1997 and 1998 the doctors were informed that an audit of their prescribing practice would take place some time during the next year. The outcome measures of the audit were whether the oxygen was prescribed and whether the prescription was accurate—that is, that the audit matched patient use in relation to the delivery device and that the flow rate and concentration were appropriate to that device.