There are a number of strategies that can be used make changes and improve processes of care, some of which have been identified in the National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care.
Analysis plan
This analysis plan can be used to inform guidance on the audit tool and clinician survey design, including eligibility and inclusion criteria, data checking and cleansing, and suggested analysis methods.
End-of-life care audit tool
This supports collection of data from clinical records to provide a picture of current end-of-life processes within a hospital.
Reports on antimicrobial use and appropriateness in the community include data from aged care homes, general practice, community health services and other non-hospital settings.
Definition of 'hospital readmission'
A hospital readmission occurs when a patient has been discharged from hospital and is admitted again within a certain time interval.
Generally, hospital readmissions can be considered in two broad categories:
Key resources
Chapter 20 now available
FAQs and resources to assist health services in the prevention and reduction of hospital-acquired complications (HACs) in Australia.
Report methodology
New fact sheet
Take a look at our new fact sheet on Preventing harm from phenol in medical imaging.