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Thorax 2007;62(Supplement 3 ):A64-A149
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Oxygen therapy in COPD
DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH THORACIC SOCIETY HOME OXYGEN DATABASE AND PREVALENCE OF HOME OXYGEN USE IN ENGLAND AND WALES
G. C. Donaldson1, G. Edmonds2, I. Balfour-Lynn3, P. Calverley4, R. Garrod5, M. Morgan6, J. A. Wedzicha1. 1University College London; 2City University; 3Royal Brompton Hospital; 4University of Liverpool; 5Kingston University and St George’s Hospital; 6University Hospitals of Leicester, UK

Introduction: A new service for the supply of oxygen therapy to patients at home started on 1 February 2006. Patients in England and Wales are supplied by four companies (Air Products, Allied Respiratory, BOC and Linde). These companies have agreed to provide anonymised data on patients to the BTS Home Oxygen database committee.

Methods: Data on patients with active orders in June 2007 were supplied. Patient’s service category data were excellent with only 33 missing records, and of these 27 had data on modality of supply, hours of use and litres of oxygen prescribed. Similarly, only 866 postcodes were possibly erroneous as they were unlinkable . . . [Full text of this article]