Table 3.
Variation between patient medical charts and respiratory care charts.
| Ward | Physician prescription |
RC prescription |
||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Written prescription | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Written prescription | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| Male | 11 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| Female | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Paediatric | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 20 | 6 (30) | 20 (100) | 6 (30) | 14 (70) | 0 (0) | 18 | 0 (0) | 18 (100) | 4 (22) | 14 (78) | 0 (0) |
1, Targeted saturation; 2, Mode of delivery; 3, Flow rate; 4, FiO2; 5, Duration of prescribed oxygen. Data presented as number (%).RC, Respiratory Care.