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This report describes priority actions to prevent and manage of Clostridioides difficile infection in Australia.

This report describes the development of a model to monitor the national prevalence of CDI in Australian health service organisations.

This report includes analyses on the burden of CDI in Australian public hospitals in 2016.

The purpose of this report is to outline the processes used by the Commission to obtain feedback from the primary health care sector and a summary of the feedback that was received.

These fact sheets, and other HACs resources released by the Commission, have been developed to support clinicians and others to reduce the occurrence and impact of HACs. 

The key findings of the report on patient journey and tracer methodologies (hereafter referred to as ‘patient journey methodologies’) are discussed according to the evidence of its effectiveness and considerations for its use in the AHSSQA Scheme.

This report describes an environmental scan to identify consumer information resources on heavy menstrual bleeding.

The key findings of the report on short-notice and unannounced surveys are discussed according to the evidence for their effectiveness and considerations for their use in the AHSSQA Scheme.

Assessing downtime management best practices for clinical safety in health IT systems

Summary: Assessing the presentation to healthcare providers of the My Health Record system ‘medications views’ (the medications view review)

Assessing the impact and safety of the use of the My Health Record system in emergency departments (the hospital emergency department review)

The key findings of the report on safety culture assessment tools are discussed according to an evaluation of effectiveness and utility of available tools, and considerations for a safety culture assessment tool as part of the AHSSQA Scheme.

Presentation of clinical document information from the My Health Record system in the National Provider Portal and clinical information systems

This report highlights concerning results for three types of significant resistances in Australia:

• Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
• Fluoroquinolone non-susceptibility in Escherichia coli
• Vancomycin non-susceptibility in Enterococcus faecium

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.