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Clinicians can take action to reduce the risk of harm.

An overview of the Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard for clinicians. This Clinician Fact Sheet explains what the standard means for clinicians for each quality statement.

The Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard contains seven quality statements describing the care a patient should be offered for acute stroke.

The Guide explains each quality statement, what it means, and what you can do to have an active role in your care.

This guide outlines relevant actions in the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards that support safe and high-quality care for people with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium. It suggests strategies for implementation, provides links to further resources and highlights examples of good practice that are achievable.

This fact sheet provides useful information on each step of a colonoscopy procedure from referral to post-procedure report.

The goal of the Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Clinical Care Standard is to ensure that all adults presenting to hospital (as defined in the scope of the clinical care standard) have an assessment of VTE risk and bleeding risk that is formally documented. It also aims to ensure that VTE prevention is
appropriately prescribed and used to reduce avoidable death or disability from hospital-acquired VTE.

Clinicians can use the clinician fact sheet to support the delivery of high-quality care to help prevent hospital‑acquired VTE.

To provide clarification of the requirement of National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standard Item 3.6 a risk-based workforce immunisation program, as applied to dental practice.

A fact sheet for clinicians outlining the safe and appropriate use of colonoscopy to maximise patients' benefits from the procedure and reduce the risk of harm.

The Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Clinical Care Standard contains seven quality statements describing the care that people should expect to receive during and after a hospital stay to help reduce their risk of blood clots. These fact sheets explain each quality statement, what it means, and what you can do to have an active role in your care.

The purpose of this advisory is to provide clarification of the core, developmental and non-applicable actions for dental practices and services implementing the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.

The Consumer Fact Sheet for Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard gives further details on the 6 Clinical Care Standards. 

This fact sheet will assist clinicians and health service organisations implement the Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard. 

The purpose of this advisory is to clarify the implementation requirements for dental practices and services applying Action 3.17.1, which requires a health service organisation to have a traceability system to enable identification of patients on whom reusable medical devices are used.

The Hip Fracture Care Consumer Fact Sheets highlights 7 standards for patient-centred care. 

Safe and high-quality care for patients with cognitive impairment (dementia and delirium) in hospital.