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Respiratory care protocol: an approach to in-hospital respiratory therapy. 1981

J Nielsen-Tietsort, and B Poole, and C E Creagh, and L E Repsher

The difficulty of delivering respiratory therapy according to currently accepted standards is an important problem in many hospitals. As a result of this problem in our hospital, we developed a new therapy delivery system--the Respiratory Care Protocol. In response to an order for Respiratory Care Protocol from an attending physician, a senior respiratory therapist evaluates the patient, prescribes specific respiratory therapy according to a protocol, and then daily re-evaluates the patient and makes appropriate therapeutic changes, including discontinuing respiratory therapy when appropriate. The Respiratory Care Protocol has been well-accepted by patients, physicians, and respiratory therapists, and by Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals evaluation teams. We believe that our use of the Respiratory Care Protocol has led to improved quality and to the reduced cost of our in-hospital respiratory care.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010347	Patient Care Planning	Usually a written medical and nursing care program designed for a particular patient.	Nursing Care Plans,Goals of Care,Plans, Nursing Care,Care Goal,Care Goals,Care Plan, Nursing,Care Planning, Patient,Care Plans, Nursing,Nursing Care Plan,Plan, Nursing Care,Planning, Patient Care
D012139	Respiratory Therapy Department, Hospital	Hospital department which is responsible for the administration of diagnostic pulmonary function tests and of procedures to restore optimum pulmonary ventilation.	Hospital Respiratory Therapy Department,Respiratory Therapy Departments, Hospital
D003120	Colorado	State bounded on the north by Wyoming and Nebraska, on the east by Kansas and Nebraska, on the south by New Mexico and Oklahoma, and on the west by Utah.
D006745	Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499	The number of beds from 300 to 499 which a hospital has been designed and constructed to contain. It may also refer to the number of beds set up and staffed for use.
D006748	Hospital Departments	Major administrative divisions of the hospital.	Departments, Hospital,Department, Hospital,Hospital Department