A case audit of acute severe asthma in children.
Review of one hundred children admitted to a large teaching hospital with asthma. Medicine record audit. Major deficiencies were revealed in the recording of the basic data required for management of the acute attack. Conversely prescribing of drug therapy was consistently accurate. Oxygen therapy and nebulisation regimes were less well recorded, and discharge letters were often lacking in information about follow-up arrangements.
D000208:Acute Disease; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D008499:Medical Records / Q000592:standards*; D009520:New Zealand; D010351:Patient Discharge