Medication charts
Quality assurance
Current Initiatives and Events
Related publications and useful websites
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has identified medication safety as one of its priorities. Reducing error and harm from medicines through safe and quality use of medicines is an important element of our objective to lead and coordinate national safety and quality improvements in health care.
A major initiative to support this objective is the standardisation of medication ordering in hospitals through the National Inpatient Medication Chart. A common medication chart in use in all Australian public hospitals by June 2006 was required by Health Ministers in April 2004.
The Commission maintains the National Inpatient Medication Chart, related specialist and ancillary charts and tools and materials to improve the safety and quality of medicines use nationally.
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