This week’s issue includes items on opioid addiction, harm prevention, health information technology, patient and visitor aggression and more.

Also covered are new issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and Diagnosis, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

This editable word document can be used to advertise the end-of-life care survey to the clinical workforce.

This resource is a Powerpoint presentation template to explain the end-of-life care survey to staff.

Two groupers have been developed to support the implementation of the hospital-acquired complications (HACs) list. These tools can be used by hospitals, health services and system managers to identify and monitor HACs.

This review informs the development of indicators to measure the safety and quality of end-of-life care in acute hospital settings.

The Commission engaged the Centre for Health Service Development based at the University of Wollongong to perform a rapid review of the literature to identify existing work and inform the development of indicators to measure the safety and quality of end-of-life care in acute hospital settings.

The Commission engaged the Centre for Health Service Development based at the University of Wollongong to perform a rapid review of the literature to identify existing work and inform the development of indicators to measure the safety and quality of end-of-life care in acute hospital settings.

The end-of-life care audit tool was developed to give hospitals the ability to compile data associated with the delivery of end-of-life care in a manageable and uniform way. Having the capacity to collect and analyse this data allows hospitals to review how care is being delivered and identify opportunities for better alignment with the Consensus Statement, and improvement of end-of-life care in general.