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This fact sheet lists the quality statements from the Cataract Clinical Care Standard for clinicians. 

This resource for consumers explains what each quality statement in the Cataract Clinical Care Standard means for people with cataract or having cataract surgery. It explains what you can do to have an active role in your care.

The evidence sources for the Cataract Clinical Care Standard are described in this document.

This fact sheet lists the quality statements for clinicians included in the Delirium Clinical Care Standard.

This resource for consumers explains what each quality statement in the Delirium Clinical Care Standard means for people at risk of, or experiencing delirium. It explains what you can do to have an active role in your care.

The Consensus Statement describes eight essential elements for prompt and reliable recognition of, and response to, physiological deterioration of patients in acute healthcare facilities in Australia.

This document presents the second edition of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards released in November 2017 and updated in May 2021.

This decision aid can be used with your doctor to help you decide whether to use antibiotics when you or your child has a sore throat.

This decision aid can be used with your doctor to help you decide whether to use antibiotics when your child has a middle ear infection.

The Delirium Clinical Care Standard contains eight quality statements to improve pathways of care for people at risk of, or experiencing delirium.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide consumers with a general summary of specific issues in the NSQHS Standards.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide consumers with an overview of what accreditation is.

The Management of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Clinical Care Standard contains 10 quality statements and 13 indicators to guide quality care for the management of cannulas, and is accompanied by supporting resources.

This guide for consumers explains what each quality statement means for consumers, and what you can do to have an active role in your care.

This fact sheet lists the quality statements for clinicians and provides key discussion points to help involve patients in their care and prevent PIVC-related complications. 

The quality statements for the Management of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Clinical Care Standard are based on best available evidence and guideline recommendations at the time of development. This summary describes the relevance of each evidence source to the quality statements.

The User Guide supports health services  to implement Action 1.28 of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards. It explains how health services and their clinicians can use data to improve the appropriateness of clinical care. It includes a suite of case studies that take users through the six steps of reviewing clinical variation data to improve processes and care.

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This document describes each of the quality statements and indicators included in the Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard and their relevance to health service organisations.

This resource for consumers explains what each quality statement in the Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard means for people at risk of, or experiencing anaphylaxis. It explains what you can do to have an active role in your care.

Healthcare professionals can use this fact sheet as a quick summary of the Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard.

This poster can be used in waiting rooms to inform patients and their families the key messages after experiencing anaphylaxis.

The purpose of this document is to provide practical guidance for managers and clinicians responsible for credentialing, and for determining and managing a clinician’s scope of clinical practice. This guide supports but does not replace or supersede state, territory or organisational policies, by-laws or rules on credentialing.

The Multi-Purpose Services Aged Care Module (the MPS Aged Care Module) has been developed by the Commission in collaboration with the Australian Government, state and territory departments of health, and the Commission’s Multi-Purpose Services Project Advisory Committee. The MPS Aged Care Module describes, in six actions, the requirements of the Aged Care Quality Standards not covered by the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. It is only applicable to eligible MPS and was endorsed by the Australian Health Minister’s Advisory Council on 7 February 2020.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to describe the requirements for implementation of the the Multi-Purpose Services Aged Care Module as part of the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation Scheme.

This literature review describes the evidence regarding the burden of disease associated with sepsis in the Australian population and the impacts of sepsis on people who survive. Evidence for interventions to improve recovery and reduce sepsis morbidity is also described.

This fact sheet for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples provides useful information on each step of a colonoscopy procedure, from referral through to the report after the procedure. 

The purpose of this checklist is to assist assessors when reviewing meeting minutes and other documentation during an assessment of clinical governance in a health service organisation. It provides a guide to the types of data that governing bodies should be reviewing.

A summary of the key data findings for New South Wales, for the Fourth Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation is available for download.

A summary of the key data findings for Queensland, for the Fourth Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation is available for download.