LETTERS Improving

acute oxygen prescription in a respiratory care unit There is good evidence that under- or overuse of oxygen in patients with under-lying respiratory disease can result in com-plications and poor clinical outcome.1 Oxygen is a drug as described in the British National Formulary and should be pre-scribed and dispensed as any drug. Previous audit has shown that oxygen prescription and dispensing are poor in clinical areas.2 With the arrival of acute oxygen guidelines from the British Thoracic Society imminent, we aimed to identify and quantify thi