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National Consensus Statement: essential elements for recognising & responding to clinical deterioration

 An escalation mapping exercise should be done to identify the parameters, thresholds, levels of abnormality, and responses that will be included in the recognition and response systems.

This survey aims to provide acute care facilities with a tool for evaluating staff perceptions of the rapid response system.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, health literacy in children and youth, patient safety improvement, specialist referrals, Baby Friendly Health Initiative, supporting nurses and midwives, maternity care, accreditation and rights, rapid response teams, digital health and more

This issue includes items on COVID-19, aged care, clinical variation, safe selection and storage of medications, telehealth for cancer care, telediagnosis, electronic medication systems, double-checking and medication administration errors, accreditation, paediatric hospice and palliative care, Staphylococcus aureus (SAB) and more

This issue includes items on COVID-19, cultural safety, codeine re-scheduling, psychotropic medicines in residential aged care facilities (RACFs), public reporting of performance data and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and the Australian Journal of Primary Health along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, environmental cleaning and infection prevention and control, Clostridioides difficile (CDI) infection, Staphylococcus aureus (SAB) prevention, virtual health care, open disclosure, long-term care, and more.

This issue includes items on measuring patient safety, diagnostic error, sepsis, using routinely collected data to detect safety issues  and more

Also covered are new issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and the American Journal of Medical Quality, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest guidance from NICE and in the UK.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, harm in primary care, falls prevention, speaking truth to power, acute coronary syndromes and more.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, face masks, ‘sideline guilt’, educational novels, safety for ethnic minority patients, medication safety, opioids, hospital discharge, patient expectations, emergency departments and more.

Also covered are the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s AHRQ.

Two groupers have been developed to support the implementation of the hospital-acquired complications (HACs) list. These tools can be used by hospitals, health services and system managers to identify and monitor HACs.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, surgical prophylaxis, antimicrobial prescribing and antimicrobial resistance, patient journeys, statins, hospital medication errors, culture, Indigenous health workforce, precision medicine, unnecessary hospitalisations, and more.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, mental health and substance use, inpatient harm, health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, nursing care, communication and resolution, open disclosure, and more.

Also covered is the latest issue of BMJ Quality & Safety along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) and the USA’s AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality).

This issue includes items on COVID-19, the new Patient Placement Guide – Infection Prevention and Control, the new Escalation Mapping Template (to assist health service organisations to assess the efficacy of their systems for recognising and responding to deterioration in a person’s mental state), a UK report into the lapses of care for a very young child, medication safety and more.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, informed consent (a new factsheet for clinicians), the economics of patient safety in long term care, governance for patient safety, sepsis, patient safety, harm, smart pumps and more

Also covered are latest issues of the American Journal of Medical Quality and the Journal of Health Services & Policy, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.