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Safe and high-quality care for patients with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium in acute health services

The HACs are identified using a combination of ICD-10-AM codes to identify the diagnosis and the condition onset flag (METeOR identifier: 354816) to indicate that the diagnosis occurred during the episode of admitted patient care.

Some HACs also require other codes to define the complication such as procedure and external cause codes.

Version 3, released April 2019.

The core hospital-based outcome indicators (CHBOIs) contain a range of indicators which have been developed to enhance safety and quality reporting and feedback.

This report provides a summary of findings from a literature review and environment scan undertaken to inform options for national public reporting standards of safety and quality in health care across public and private hospitals in Australia.

This report draws on data from a wide range of sources, and includes information about key advances in safety and quality in Australia; prevalence of common safety risks to patients; action taken to identify and drive the delivery of appropriate care; and the Commission’s approach to supporting value based healthcare.

The analysis and data provided in this report are limited to public hospitals. The Commission is currently working with the private hospital sector to ensure the specified safety and quality indicators can be included in future reporting.

This report provides a summary of findings from consumer and clinician focus groups and expert interviews undertaken to inform options for national public reporting standards of safety and quality in health care across public and private hospitals in Australia.

This report identifies options and recommendations to support implementation of public reporting for quality healthcare and patient safety. The report has been informed by consumer and clinician focus groups, expert interviews, and a literature review and environment scan. The options paper was endorsed by all Health Ministers in 2020.

This consultation paper has been prepared as the first phase of a program of work to develop a national approach to support improvements in patient safety and quality in primary care. This paper provides an overview of the current patient safety and quality improvement environment in primary care.

This report by the Sub-Committee on Best-Practice Pricing and Clinical Quality Information (the Sub-Committee) was endorsed by the Joint Working Party on Pricing for Safety and Quality in Australian Public Hospitals (JWP) of the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) on 29 June 2015.

This report is a review of the processes that exist, or are recommended for clinical quality registry governance, accreditation and quality assurance internationally and in Australia.

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