This issue includes items on patient harm, chronic conditions, clinical deterioration, COVID-19, and more. Also covered are the latest from The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, The Milbank Quarterly, Journal for Healthcare Quality, BMJ Quality & Safety, and International Journal for Quality in Health Care.
A summary of what the Standard means for healthcare services providing treatment for patients with knee osteoarthritis.
The Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard describes what each quality statement means for consumers, clinicians, and healthcare services. It provides indicators to support local monitoring and includes information about using clinical care standards.
This report provides analyses of data and trends in resistance to macrolide antibiotics in S. agalactiae and S. pyogenes (also known as group B and group A Streptococcus, respectively) from 2006 to 2023. The data that were used for this report were submitted to APAS.
Released July 2024
The Commission develops clinical care standards with advice from multidisciplinary topic working group that include clinicians, consumers, and researchers.
Information is also available on what each quality statement means for:
The Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard contains eight quality statements describing the care that people over the age of 45 years should be offered if they are experiencing knee pain and are suspected of having knee osteoarthritis.