The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide guidance to health service organisations when establishing processes to accurately identify and record Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status.
The Commission publishes hospitality, gifts or benefits that it receives throughout the course of performing its functions above the (estimated) value of $100 as per the Australian Public Service Commission's guideline.
This issue includes items on COVID-19, cognitive impairment, IV medication errors, teamwork and communication and more.
A joint statement from the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges (CPMC) and the Commission has been made regarding the importance of responding to the long-term lack of improvement in compliance with antimicrobial prescribing guidelines in Australia.
Joint Statement from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges (CPMC) – Compliance with Australian guidelines for prescribing antimicrobials.
This document provides instructions on how to utilise two work boards within OrgTRx – one for data reported using CLSI guidelines, and another for data reported using EUCAST – to assist APAS contributors to extract data to create antibiograms.
This issue includes items on COVID-19, cognitive impairment, patient experience, hospital readmissions, adverse events, RCA and more.
Also covered are the latest issues of the International Journal for Quality in Health, the Australian Journal of Primary Health, and Pediatric Quality & Safety along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health as well as the latest from the UK’s NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) and ARHQ in the USA.
This report describes priority actions to prevent and manage of Clostridioides difficile infection in Australia.