A new surveillance system set up to provide early warning of the spread of dangerous bacteria has detected more than 1,000 cases across Australia resistant to last-line antibiotics – giving experts much better and more timely information to help combat the threat of antimicrobial resistance.
The Commission, in consultation with the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC), has released the fourth edition of Requirements for laboratory testing for immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) (the HIV and HCV testing standard).
2023
Presentation
This PowerPoint presentation has been developed for Primary Health Networks to raise awareness of the Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard. It helps explain the Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard for primary care clinicians. It can be used to facilitate multidisciplinary educational sessions on low back pain.
2023
Fact sheet
This Implementation Guide describes activities and resources that are recommended for Primary Health Networks (PHNs) supporting local services and clinicians to implement the Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard.
2023
Guide, user guide or guidelines
This guidance provides clinicians with advice on early recognition, treatment and prevention of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children.
ENGAGING consumers in health care – from the point of care to the policy development level – is a critical factor in the value-based healthcare equation, says a leading consumer health advocate.
‘EVERY ear, of every child, at every opportunity,’ is the mantra of Professor Amanda Leach, Leader of the Ear Health Research Program at the Menzies School of Health Research.
THE multitude of harms associated with opioids are well known to clinicians, but many continue to prescribe these drugs for chronic pain in the belief that the benefits outweigh these risks, a leading pain specialist says.
MOVES to improve the management of low back pain in Australia are gaining momentum with a national clinical care standard under development and an initiative to reduce inappropriate care in emergency departments.
A COLLABORATIVE group of local clinicians, greater clinical guidance, and an unexpected jolt from COVID-19, is helping to turn the tide on the high rates of hysterectomy in regional Victoria.