An overview of the Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard for clinicians. This Clinician Fact Sheet explains what the standard means for clinicians for each quality statement.

The Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard contains seven quality statements describing the care a patient should be offered for acute stroke.

The Guide explains each quality statement, what it means, and what you can do to have an active role in your care.

The Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard includes guidance for consumers, clinicians and health service organisations.

This week’s issue includes items on antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial prescribing, burnout, value, diagnostic errors, culture, medication safety, electronic prescribing and medicines administration and discharge and more.

Also covered are new issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and Pediatric Quality & Safety, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and latest from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Presented in September 2018

This specification provides a guide for health service organisations to develop local cumulative antibiograms, using summary antimicrobial susceptibility tables. Cumulative antibiograms assist antimicrobial stewardship programs in the development of local antimicrobial prescribing guidelines and formulary management.

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