Resources for medication reconciliation

Assessment to the NSQHS Standards
- The Impact of the NSQHS Standards
- National Standards Program updates and consultations
- NSQHS Standards (second edition)
  - Request for NSQHS Standards (second edition) commercial design files
  - Assessor Orientation Course Enrolment Form
- Information for health service organisations undergoing assessment to the NSQHS Standards
  - Steps for implementing the NSQHS Standards
- Information for dental practices undergoing assessment to the NSQHS Standards
- Information for accrediting agencies
- Resources to implement the NSQHS Standards (first edition)
  - Logo and icons request form
- NSQHS Standards Advisories (first edition)
- Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation Scheme
- Improving care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Clinical Care Standards
- Overview of the Clinical Care Standards
  - Clinical Care Standards Advisory Committee
- Current consultation
- Acute Coronary Syndromes Clinical Care Standard
  - Project Information
  - Endorsements
- Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard
  - Project Information
  - Endorsements
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard
  - Project Information
  - Endorsements
- Cataract Clinical Care Standard
  - Project Information
- Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard
  - Project Information
- Delirium Clinical Care Standard
  - Project Information
  - Endorsements
- Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Clinical Care Standard
  - Project Information
  - Endorsements
- Hip Fracture Care Clinical Care Standard
  - Project Information
- Osteoarthritis of the Knee
  - Project Information
  - Endorsements
- Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Clinical Care Standard
  - Project Information
Clinical Communications
- Clinical Handover
- Patient-Clinician Communication
- Resources
  - External Links
  - Clinical Handover Presentations
Clinical Trials
- Current Consultation
- Project Information
- Resources
Safe and high-quality care for patients with cognitive impairment
- Caring for Cognitive Impairment campaign
- A better way to care: Safe and high-quality care for patients with cognitive impairment (dementia and delirium) in hospital
Credentialing of clinicians
Colonoscopy Safety and Quality
Comprehensive Care
- Comprehensive Care Standard
- Conceptual model for Comprehensive Care
- Comprehensive Care Resources
End-of-Life Care
- Information for patients, families and carers
- Tools and resources for health services
- End-of-life care projects across Australia
Falls Prevention
- Falls prevention resources
- Latest falls prevention research and practice
General Practice accreditation
- Accrediting agencies assessing general practices
Healthcare Associated Infection
- Infection Prevention and Control Online Modules
- AMS and HAI resources and links
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiative
- Infection Prevention and Control Signage
- CPE Guide
- National Hand Hygiene Initiative
  - Hand Hygiene Australia
- National Infection Control Guidelines
- National Surveillance Initiative
- Clostridium difficile infection
Indicators of Safety and Quality
- Avoidable Hospital Readmissions
- Potentially preventable hospitalisations and potentially avoidable deaths in Australia
- Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
- Classification of Hospital Acquired Diagnoses
- Hospital-acquired complications
- Australian Sentinel Events List
- Core, Hospital-based Outcome Indicators
- Australian Hospital Patient Experience Question Set (AHPEQS)
  - Review of patient experience and its measurement in Australian hospitals
- Practice-level indicators of safety and quality for primary health care
  - Practice-level indicators of safety and quality for primary health care consultation – Written Submissions
Information Strategy
- National arrangements for clinical quality registries
  - Testing and validating the Draft Operating Principles and Technical Standards
- Health Information Standards for Safety and Quality
Knee Pain
Medication Safety
- Safer medicines administration
- Paediatric prescribing positioning statement
- High Risk Medicines
- NIMC Audit System
- New NSMC (National Standard Medication Chart) Audit
- NIMC National Audit Reports
- Medication charts
- NIMC VTE Prophylaxis Section
- Medication reconciliation
- Safer naming, labelling and packaging of medicines
- Electronic medication management
- Quality use of medicines in hospitals
  - Hospital QUM individual indicators
- Medication Safety Tools and Resources
- National Residential Medication Chart
- Paediatric National Inpatient Medication Charts
  - Paediatric NIMC Seminar 7 May 2009: Report
- NIMC Private Hospital and Private Hospital Day Surgery Versions
Mental Health
- National Standards in Mental Health Services
- National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards user guide for health services providing care for people with mental health issues
- Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration
- Medication Safety in Mental Health
- Mental Health Advisory Group
- Emergency mental health contact details
Mental Health
Open Disclosure
- The Australian Open Disclosure Framework
- Implementing the Open Disclosure Framework
- Open disclosure programs, policies and information
  - Open disclosure at Mater Health Services, Brisbane
- Open Disclosure projects and priorities
Patients and Carers
- Be aware of button batteries
Patient and Consumer Centred Care
- Person-centred healthcare organisations
- National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard 2: Partnering with Consumers
- Health Literacy
- Useful resources
Patient Identification
- Patient / Procedure Matching Protocols
- Specification for a standard patient identification band
Primary Health Care
- Written submissions on patient safety and quality improvement in primary care
Safety in e-Health
- My Health Record clinical safety program
- My Health Record in Emergency Departments Project
- Electronic discharge summary (EDS) systems
- Safety Issues at Transitions of Care: Pain points relating to clinical systems
- Cumulative hospital-level antibiogram
- Structured microbiology requests and reports for healthcare-associated infections
Prioritising clinical practice guideline development
Recognising and Responding to Clinical Deterioration
- Training and Competencies
- Recognising and Responding to Deterioration in Mental State
- Implementing Recognition and Response Systems
- Evaluating Recognition and Response Systems
  - Audit Tools and Quality Measures for Recognition and Response Systems
- Observation and Response Charts
- Tools and Resources to Support Implementation of the National Consensus Statement
- Past events
Shared Decision Making
- Webinars on Shared Decision Making
- Patient Decision Aids
- Resources and publications
Transvaginal Mesh
- Resources for consumers, clinicians and health service organisations – Transvaginal mesh
- Senate Inquiry
- States, territories and private health services
- Action by the TGA
- Consumer forums to discuss transvaginal mesh

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