Evaluation of oxygen therapy provided to adult inpatients in a hospital unit following interventions involving the multidisciplinary team
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Objective: To evaluate the oxygen therapy offered to adult patients admitted to a hospital unit regarding compliance with the guidelines of the British Thoracic Society, after interventions with the multidisciplinary team, focusing on improving work processes. Methods: This is an uncontrolled intervention study (Before and after), which was divided into three stages: (1) planning and execution of interventions, (2) collection of data and medical records and prescriptions at two moments, and (3) comparison of pre and post intervention results. Results: the sample consisted of 15 patient records in the pre-intervention period and 23 records in the post-intervention period. The item of the medical prescription with the highest percentage of improvement was “target saturation”, which increased from 13% to 61% compliance at the end of the analyses. Conclusion: the present study demonstrated advances in the adequacy of oxygen therapy regarding the established parameters; however, there are still several opportunities for improvement in adherence to the institutional protocol implemented during this study. It is expected that this study will contribute to the promotion of the safe, rational and optimized use of oxygen therapy.
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