title: An audit on hospital management of bronchial asthma.
abstract: Medical audit is a new concept in developing countries like Pakistan. We carried out this retrospective study on bronchial asthma. The purpose was to see if care given to patient with asthma meets the accepted international standard or not. During this audit several deficiencies were found. Documentation in notes about signs indicating severity of asthma was very poor. Peak flow recording in the notes was also very deficient. There was no documentation in notes whether inhalers technique of the patients has been checked or not. This audit shows that care given to asthma patients is far from satisfactory and we clearly need to improve in order to reach the accepted international standards.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saghir
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tabassum
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Husain
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D010154:Pakistan; D012189:Retrospective Studies