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Assessment to the NSQHS Standards
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- Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation Scheme
- Improving care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Colonoscopy Safety and Quality
Clinical Care Standards
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- Antimicrobial Stewardship
  - Project information
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- Acute Coronary Syndromes
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- Acute Stroke
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- Delirium
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- Hip Fracture Care
- Osteoarthritis of the Knee
  - Endorsements
- Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Clinical Care Standard
Clinical Communications
- Clinical Handover
- Patient-Clinician Communication
- Resources
  - External Links
  - Clinical Handover Presentations
Cognitive Impairment
- A better way to care
- Program overview
Credentialling for Health Professionals
- Draft Review by Peers: in professional and administrative process – Stakeholder Written Submissions
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
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiative
- Building Clinician Capacity
  - Infection Prevention and Control Online Modules
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- CPE Guide
- National Hand Hygiene Initiative
- National Infection Control Guidelines
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- HAI Publications
- Antimicrobial Resistance Standing Committee
- Consultation on Clostridium difficile
Information Strategy
- National arrangements for clinical quality registries
  - Testing and validating the Draft Operating Principles and Technical Standards
- Indicators of Safety and Quality
- Health Information Standards for Safety and Quality
Knee Pain
Medication Safety
- Medication charts
- Medication reconciliation
- Medication administration
- Medication safety and quality education and training
- Medication safety alerts and notices
  - High Risk Medication Alert – Vincristine
  - High Risk Medication Alert – Intravenous Potassium Chloride
- Safer naming, labelling and packaging of medicines
  - National Tall Man Lettering
    - Maintaining the National Tall Man lettering list
    - National Tall Man Lettering Project Report and Tall Man evaluation
  - National Standard for User-applied Labelling of Injectable Medicines, Fluids and Lines
- Electronic Medication Management (EMM)
  - Development of the Guide to Safe Electronic Medication Management in Hospitals
  - Electronic medication management systems in hospitals background
- Medication Safety Tools and Resources
Mental Health
- National Standards in Mental Health Services
- Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration
- Medication Safety in Mental Health
- Emergency mental health contact details
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
- National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard 2: Partnering with Consumers
- Health Literacy
  - National workshop on health literacy
- Useful resources
Patient Identification
- Patient / Procedure Matching Protocols
- Specification for a standard patient identification band
Primary Health Care
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
Safety in E-Health
- Specification for Hospital-Level Cumulative Antibiogram
- Hospital-Level Cumulative Antibiogram Expert Roundtable, 11 December 2012
- Hospital-Level Cumulative Antibiogram Expert Roundtable, 14 May 2013
Shared Decision Making
- Webinars on Shared Decision Making
- Patient Decision Aids
- Resources and publications
Transvaginal Mesh
- Consumer forums to discuss transvaginal mesh

Safety and Quality > Our Work > Shared Decision Making > Resources and publications

Resources

The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute hosts an inventory of internationally developed patient decision aids:

Examples of patient decision aids by the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.

The International Patient Decision Aids Standards Collaboration has developed a set of standards for assessing the quality of patient decision aids:

The International Patient Decision Aids Standards.

Publications

Top tips for safe health care

Literature Review – Question Prompt Lists (PDF 2MB)

Shared decision making: what do clinicians need to know and why they bother? Hoffman et al (2014). Medical Journal of Australia