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This report, Windows into Safety and Quality in Health Care 2011, builds upon the previous years’ Windows reports and offers perspectives on a range of healthcare safety and quality matters in a number of settings. In part, it provides a review of the activities of the past five years. It also anticipates some of the emerging issues and challenges that the Commission may address, including the culture of health care, the importance of patient-centred care, and safety and quality in primary care.

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care reports annually on the state of healthcare safety and quality in Australia.

The Windows into Safety and Quality in Health Care 2009 provides windows onto a range of safety and quality issues and continues to report on sentinel events. It offers safety and quality insights in a number of settings and from various perspectives.

Testing and validating draft operating principles and technical standards for Australian Clinical Quality Registries.

Testing and Validating Draft Operating Principles and Technical Standards for Australian Clinical Quality Registries.

In March 2009, the Commission published a paper on the use of observation charts to recognise clinical deterioration.

Adapted from Preventing Falls and Harm From Falls in Older People: Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities 2009

 Testing and validating Draft Operating Principles and Technical Standards for Australian Clinical Quality Registries.

Adapted from Preventing Falls and Harm From Falls in Older People: Australian Residential Aged Care Facilities 2009

Testing and Validation of the Testing and Validation of the Draft Operating Principles Operating Principles and Technical Standards for and Technical Standards for Australian Clinical Quality Registries.