Liquid oxygen therapy at home

To accomplish this, the Agency advises and supports the Minister of Health and Social Services as well as the decision-makers in the health care system, in matters concerning the assessment of health services and technologies. [...] The Agence d’évaluation des technologies et des modes d’intervention en santé (AETMIS) recently published a report on home oxygen therapy, and was subsequently asked by the Québec Ministry of Health and Social Services to examine the available evidence specific to liquid oxygen therapy, in terms of costs and benefits, and the implications for the home oxygen program in Québec. [...] There is a wide variation in the use of liquid oxygen at home and in the organization of services within and across jurisdictions. [...] Utilization of liquid oxygen systems are active outside the home with an oxygen and access to this treatment vary within and supply include compressed gas systems, liquid across jurisdictions, and depend on the pa- oxygen systems, and oxygen concentrators. [...] In Canada, the use This report presents the results of a compre- of liquid oxygen systems is higher in Ontario hensive literature review, prepared in response where it is covered by the provincial Home to a request from the Québec Ministry of Oxygen Program.