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On 24 November 2021, the Commission released the new national Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard.

This guide provides the healthcare workforce with a concise overview of the incident management process and its underlying principles.

This document provides a discussion guide and checklist to ensure patients who have experienced anaphylaxis are safely discharged from care. 

On 9 September 2021, the Commission released the updated Delirium Clinical Care Standard (2021).

On 17 August 2021, the Commission released the Cataract Clinical Care Standard.

The technical specifications provide guidance to assist organisations to implement the Australian Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (A-HSOPS 2.0) in a consistent manner. 

On 26 May 2021, the Commission released the Management of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Clinical Care Standard.

On 21 April 2021, the Commission announced the introduction of Australia's first Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard.

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.

• Access the online version of the User Guide

The technical specifications will provide guidance and assist health services and facilities to implement the AHPEQS in a consistent manner.

Reviewing the delivery of comprehensive care is important for ensuring patients are receiving care that meets their clinical and personal needs; that risks are efficiently and effectively identified and mitigated; that the agreed comprehensive care plan is achieving what it aimed to do; and that patients' goals and expectations are being met.

This tool will help you discuss the main treatment options available for osteoarthritis of the knee and to support you to make decisions about your care.

This user guide outlines critical actions in the second edition of the NSQHS Standards that support safe and high quality care for patients with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium.

The purpose of this user guide is to provide an overview of the key concepts and issues that should be addressed when measuring and evaluating consumer partnerships, and to inform the development of evaluation and monitoring plans for the Partnering with Consumers Standard.

This hospital-acquired complication (HAC) covers falls occurring in hospital which result in a fracture or intracranial injury resulting in diagnoses of intracranial injury, fractured neck of femur or other fractures.