The Commission's purpose is to contribute to better health outcomes and experiences for all patients and consumers, and improved value and sustainability in the health system by leading and coordinating national improvements in the safety and quality of health care.

Delirium is an acute change in mental status that is often triggered by acute illness, surgery, injuries or adverse effects of medicines.

The Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard guides clinicians and health services in hip fracture care to improve outcomes for people with a hip fracture

Posters

Patient Blood Management (PBM) takes an individualised, multidisciplinary approach to the management of a patient’s blood, through assessment and the development of a management plan to:

A Collaborative enables health services to learn from each other and recognised experts in this identified area of health care. A Collaborative is designed to implement change in small, manageable cycles, and identify where a change actually leads to improvement.

How will the Collaborative help patients?

By improving anaemia management for patients in the preoperative phase of care, the Collaborative may help to reduce the:

Implementation and validation guides

Implementation Guide

In Australia, many children and young people under the age of 20 have a computed tomography (CT) scan each year.