AURA 2023 includes data and analyses from 2020–2022 (primarily 2020–2021) from various sources and reports on patterns and trends in antimicrobial use and appropriateness and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Australian acute and community healthcare settings.

This complete version of the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard describes what each quality statement means for patients and their families, clinicians, and health service organisations, and provides indicators for local monitoring. It includes information about using clinical care standards, and the background and evidence sources for this standard.

This issue includes items on the latest CARAlert annual report, health equity, mental health, long-term care, nursing, surgery, ward rounds, venous thromboembolism and more.

Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, HealthcarePapers International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the UK’s Patient Safety Learning, the USA’s AHRQ and Canada’s Healthcare Excellence.

The Commission is proposing changes to the accreditation of medical imaging practices. The Australian Safety and Quality Medical Imaging Accreditation (ASQMIA) Scheme proposal describes the accreditation framework components, including cycle length, types of assessment notification, the assessment cycle, assessment methodology and its application to different kinds of imaging practices.