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Quality standards
British Thoracic Society quality standards for home oxygen use in adults
  1. Jay Suntharalingam1,
  2. Tom Wilkinson2,
  3. Joseph Annandale3,
  4. Claire Davey4,
  5. Rhea Fielding5,
  6. Daryl Freeman6,
  7. Michael Gibbons7,
  8. Maxine Hardinge8,
  9. Sabrine Hippolyte9,
  10. Vikki Knowles10,
  11. Cassandra Lee11,
  12. William MacNee12,
  13. Jacqueline Pollington13,
  14. Vandana Vora14,
  15. Trefor Watts15 and
  16. Meme Wijesinghe16
  1. 1 Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, Bath and North East Somer, UK
  2. 2 CES, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  3. 3 Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, UK
  4. 4 NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College, London, UK
  5. 5 Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, Coventry, UK
  6. 6 Mundesley Medical Centre, Norfolk, UK
  7. 7 Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Fundation Trust, Exeter, UK
  8. 8 Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust, Oxford, UK
  9. 9 Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
  10. 10 NHS Guildford and Waverley Clinical Commissioning Group, Guildford, UK
  11. 11 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
  12. 12 Queen’s Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
  13. 13 Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Barnsley, UK
  14. 14 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK
  15. 15 Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, Walsall, UK
  16. 16 Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jay Suntharalingam; jay.suntharalingam{at}nhs.net

Abstract

Introduction The purpose of the quality standards document is to provide healthcare professionals, commissioners, service providers and patients with a guide to standards of care that should be met for home oxygen provision in the UK, together with measurable markers of good practice. Quality statements are based on the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Guideline for Home Oxygen Use in Adults.

Methods Development of BTS Quality Standards follows the BTS process of quality standard production based on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence process manual for the development of quality standards.

Results 10 quality statements have been developed, each describing a key marker of high-quality, cost-effective care for home oxygen use, and each statement is supported by quality measures that aim to improve the structure, process and outcomes of healthcare.

Discussion BTS Quality Standards for home oxygen use in adults form a key part of the range of supporting materials that the society produces to assist in the dissemination and implementation of a guideline’s recommendations.

  • Long Term Oxygen Therapy (ltot)
  • Short Burst Oxygen Therapy

This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000223

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    Footnotes

    • BTS Quality Standards for Home Oxygen are endorsed by: The Association for Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care (ACPRC), The Association of Palliative Medicine (APM), The Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists (ARNS), The Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP), The Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS-UK).

    • Contributors JS and TW were lead authors responsible for the overall editing and production of the document. DF, MG, VK, WM and TW were lead authors for quality statements 1–3. JA, CL, JS and TW were lead authors for quality statements 4 and 5. RF, SH, JP and MW were lead authors for quality statements 6 and 7. CD, MH and VV were lead authors for quality statements 8–10. All authors were responsible for the final approval of the document. GG attended the meeting as the lay representative and gave feedback on the draft document.

    • Funding This project received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests The British Thoracic Society operates a Declaration of Interest scheme, and it was a requirement that all members of the development group completed a Declaration of Interest form on an annual basis for the duration of the project. Forms were submitted annually by all authors, and all have confirmed that none of their interests were linked to home oxygen and therefore this document.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.