Prescribing oxygen therapy. An audit of oxygen prescribing practices on medical wards at North Shore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 1238, 2006, Pages

  Boyle, Matthew J ^a   Wong, Janice ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACCURACY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW RATE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEW ZEALAND; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; WARD; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEW ZEALAND; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 33746594491     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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